General Principles of Epicurean Physics

1. Introduction To Epicurean Ethics

• General Principles of Epicurean Ethics
• Happiness And Its Relationship To Pleasure
• Life
  1. Life Is Desirable
  2. Infinite Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than A Limited Life
  3. The Best Life
  4. How Long Should We Seek To Live?
• Death
  1. Death is Nothing To Us And There Is No Reward Or Punishment After Death
• Pleasure And Pain
  1. The Nature And Meaning Of The Word "Pleasure"
  2. By Pleasure We Mean All Experience That Is Not Painful. If We Are Aware Of Anything At All, What We Are Aware of Is Either Pleasurable Or Painful. There is No Neutral or Third State.
  3. Whatever Is Not Painful is Pleasurable
  4. The Desirability of Pleasure
  5. Why Sometimes We Choose Pain And Avoid Pleasure
  6. Pleasure Is The Guide of Life
  7. Pleasure Is the Goal of Life
  8. The Relationship Of Mental and Bodily Feelings
  9. Pleasures Differ In Duration, Intensity, And Part of the Body Effected
  10. The Quantitative "Limit" In Total Pleasure
  11. The Term "Pleasure" Is Equivalent To "Absence of Pain"
  12. The Nature of Pain
  13. The Undesirability of Pain
  14. The Manageability of Pain
• The Concepts Of Good And Evil
  1. All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
  2. There Is No Good But Pleasure
  3. There is No Evil But Pain
• Virtue
  1. The Nature of Virtue
  2. Piety - The Proper Attitude Toward The Gods
  3. Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End in Itself. Virtue Is Not The Same For All People, Times, And Places, And Virtue Is Instrumental To Pleasure Rather Than An End In Itself
  4. The Virtue Of Prudence
  5. The Virtue Of Friendship
  6. The Virtue Of Courage
  7. The Virtue Of Justice
  8. The Virtue Of Honesty
  9. The Virtue Of Confidence
  10. The Virtue Of Beneficence
  11. The Virtue Of Temperance
  12. The Virtue Of Considerateness
  13. The Virtue Of Hope
  14. The Virtue Of Independence And Self Sufficiency
  15. The Virtue Of Remembering And Presence of Mind
  16. The Virtue Of Proper Political And Social Relations
  17. The Virtue Of Gratitude
  18. The Virtue Of A Sound Mind
  19. The Virtue Of A Sound Body
• Choice And Avoidance
  1. There Is No Necessity To Live Under The Control of Necessity - Rejection of Determinism
  2. There Is No Fate Or Fortune
  3. Desire Is Not Inherently Painful Or Pleasurable
  4. Selecting Among Desires Using To The "Natural," "Necessary," And "Empty" Categories
  5. Weighing Pleasures And Pains
  6. Activity, Rest, And Procrastination

2. "Atoms" (Indivisible Particles) Moving Through Void Are The Natural Building Blocks Of The Universe

2.1. The Properties Of Atoms - Shape, Size, and Weight

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2.2. The Motion Of Atoms

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2.3. The Swerve and The Rejection of Determinism

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2.4. Void Is The Space In Which Atoms Exist And Move

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2.5. The Nature And Properties Of Void

3. Bodies Are Combinations Of Atoms And Void

3.1. The Nature And Properties Of Bodies

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3.2. The Qualities Of Bodies, Including Color

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3.3. "Emergence" And The "Events" Of Bodies

4. The Universe Is Eternal In Time

1. Nothing Can Be Created From Nothing
2. Nothing Goes To Nothing
3. The Formation of Worlds Within The Universe

5. The Universe Is Boundless - Infinite In Size

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6. The Universe Contains Life On Other Worlds

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7. The Universe Contains Nothing Supernatural

7.1. Nature Has No Gods Over Here

1. There Are No Eternal or Supernatural Forms Or Essences Or Other Natures
2. There Is Nothing Above Or Outside The Universe
3. There Are No Supernatural Gods But There Are "Natural" Gods
4. Do Not Assign To The Gods of Nature Anything That Is Inconsistent With Incorruption Or Blessedness
5. The Human Soul Is Natural And Is Born With The Body
6. Death is Nothing(ness) To Us - The Human Soul Does Not Survive The Death Of The Body
7. "Images" Are The Flow Of Particles From Bodies