PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epicurus, Hedonism
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The tetrapharmakon (four-part cure: don"t worry about god/ don"t fear death/ what"s good is easy to get/ what"s bad is easy to endure. Death is nothing to us : death is neither good nor bad, the fear of death is irrational, three different arguments. The time of harm" argument (epicurus: death is neither good nor bad for the person who dies, need to distinguish between. The argument from hedonism: death is nothing to us. For all good and bad consists in sense-experience, and death is the privation of sense-experience (letter to menoeceus: 1. The only goods are pleasures and the only bad are pains: 2. Death involves neither pleasure nor pain: 3. therefore, death is neither good or bad. Reject (1) the only goods are pleasures and the only bad are pains: bad things can happen to someone without their experiencing it.
