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PhysicsAtomicsCanonics
Nothing From Nothing Or To NothingNothing Except Atoms And Void Have Eternal and Unchanging Properties. The Atoms Are Constantly In Motion, But Not So Fast That We Cannot Comprehend The Nature Of The Universe, Knowledge, and How To LiveKnowledge Is Possible
Atomic Swerve and Rejection of DeterminismRejection of Atomic ReductionismSenses, Feelings, And Anticipations Are Criteria of Knowledge
Eternal - Boundless - Life-Filled Universe All Sensations Are "True"
Nothing But Atoms Are Eternal - No Immortal Soul Priority of Nature Over Reason
Nothing Is Supernatural - No Gods Over Nature Embrace of Practical Reason
Rejection of Platonic Idealism and Aristotelian Essences Rejection of Dialectical Logic and Skepticism

Ethics

There Are Only Two Categories of Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - And Nature Gives Nothing Else By Which To Determine What to Choose and What to AvoidPleasure Includes All Bodily And Mental Experiences Which Are Not Painful - There Is No Pain Where Pleasure Is Present - and Thus Pleasure Is Present Where Pain Is Absent
Pleasure Has A Limit In Quantity That Can Be Experienced, And That Limit Is Reached When All Bodily And Mental Experiences Are Filled With Pleasure And No Pain Is PresentPleasure Is Desirable - Pleasure Is The Alpha and Omega And Guide Of Life
Mental Pleasures And Pains Can Be More Significant Than Bodily Pleasures And PainsPain is Undesirable - But Pain Should Be Chosen When Greater Pleasure Or Lesser Pain Results
Pain Is Manageable - It Is Short If Intense, Endurable If Long, And Terminable By DeathOnly This Life And This World - No Other World Or Reward Or Punishment After Death
Personal Freedom, Responsibility, And Proper Attitude Toward "The Gods" and "Fate"Rejection Of Absolute Virtue, But Embrace Of Practical Virtue As Instrumental For Achieving A Life of Pleasure
Two Equal-Rank Categories Within Pleasure (Stimulative/Kinetic - Non-Stimulative/Katastematic)

Virtues

PrudenceFriendshipTemperance
CourageConsideratenessJustice
HopeHonestyGratitude
ConfidenceLiving In the PresentBeneficence

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