- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Making Sense of My Life as a Whole
- 2 The Virtues
- 3 Nature and Naturalism
- 4 Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
- 5 The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe
- 6 Antiochus: The Intuitive View
- 7 The Epicureans: Rethinking What Is Natural
- 8 The Sceptics: Accepting What Is Natural
- 9 Uses of Nature
- 10 The Good of Others
- 11 Finding Room for Other‐Concern
- 12 Self‐Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other‐Concern
- 13 Justice
- 14 Self‐Interest and Morality
- 15 Happiness, Success and What Matters
- 16 Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
- 17 The Sceptics: Untroubledness Without Belief
- 18 Aristotle: An Unstable View
- 19 Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue
- 20 Aristotelian Responses
- 21 Happiness and the Demands of Virtue
- 22 Morality, Ancient and Modern
- Cast of Characters
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
- Chapter:
- (p.334) 16 Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
- Source:
- The Morality of Happiness
- Author(s):
Julia Annas (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Epicurus, in claiming that happiness is really pleasure, produces an account of pleasure as tranquility tailored to allow it to be our final end. This greatly revises our attitudes to death, particularly premature death, to particular pleasures and pains, and to variation in our activities, which are to produce tranquility.
Keywords: death, Epicurus, happiness, pleasure, tranquility
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Making Sense of My Life as a Whole
- 2 The Virtues
- 3 Nature and Naturalism
- 4 Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
- 5 The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe
- 6 Antiochus: The Intuitive View
- 7 The Epicureans: Rethinking What Is Natural
- 8 The Sceptics: Accepting What Is Natural
- 9 Uses of Nature
- 10 The Good of Others
- 11 Finding Room for Other‐Concern
- 12 Self‐Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other‐Concern
- 13 Justice
- 14 Self‐Interest and Morality
- 15 Happiness, Success and What Matters
- 16 Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
- 17 The Sceptics: Untroubledness Without Belief
- 18 Aristotle: An Unstable View
- 19 Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue
- 20 Aristotelian Responses
- 21 Happiness and the Demands of Virtue
- 22 Morality, Ancient and Modern
- Cast of Characters
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index Locorum
- General Index
