Happiness is linked to pleasure (or really, your freedom from pain). By cultivating pleasures that avoid subsequent pain, we can live a happy life. We need three goods: friends, time to think, and self-sufficiency. Without these, we can never be happy, even if we are loaded with cash. Epicurus advises us to look in the right place for happiness (even though we are often deceived by society and advertising about where to find it).

1) Describe Epicurus’s views on the origins/causes of sadness and unhappiness.

2) What are all thee of Epicurus’s prescriptions to live a better life?

3) What does Epicurus really mean by “happiness”? (hint: it really isn’t the happiness we think about is our “common sense” use of the word)

4) Your reflection: in what way(s) might Epicurus be right? In what way, if any, might he be wrong? Why?

 Please give clear and non-question begging answers (no “he is right because he does the thing that is right”, etc.)

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