General Principles of Epicurean Ethics

1. Happiness And Its Relationship To Pleasure

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2. 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?

3. Death

1. Death is Nothing To Us And There Is No Reward Or Punishment After Death

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Choice And Avoidance - Principles of Daily Decisionmaking

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