PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aristotelian Ethics, Egotism, Epicureanism
1 Sep 2020
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From the greek character, a word derived from charassein, to make sharp or. From the greek root for pleasure, the general term for any philosophy that says pleasure = good and pain = evil. Pleasure for one person may be pain for another . Money is a tool, not a purpose. Cars, house, ac, money are just tools that make us happy . A philosophy that advocates the unreflective pursuit of intense, immediate pleasure; makes no qualitative distinctions among pleasures. Aristippus taught that leisure is the principle motive for living and that pleasure is always good regardless of its source. He asserted that because sensory pleasures are more intense than mental or emotional one, they are the best of all. Neither life nor death is good or bad in itself, epicurus said; only the quality of our pleasures or pains is important. Practically anything can be desired by someone somewhere. But that does not mean that it is desirable.
