Taking virtue seriously

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6 pages

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07/20/2008

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Table of Contents Taking virtue seriously Table of Contents

 
  1. The difference between Epicurus and the other Greek ethical theorists.
  2. Pleasures and pains do not always guide one's actions.
  3. How is it possible to reconcile the tenet with the claim that Epicurean theory takes virtue seriously?
  4. Is living virtuously sufficient or necessary for living pleasantly?
  5. Epicurean ethical theory does it face up to the Ciceronian charge?

Abstract

In the present paper I will examine Cicero's charge in De Finibus that Epicurean theory does not, as it were, take virtue seriously. I will then lay out two Epicurean responses to Cicero's objection. I will show that the first response - that Epicurean theory may both take virtue seriously and maintain its hedonistic core - fails as both a descriptive claim and as a normative claim. I will then explain how the second response - that virtue is a necessary and sufficient condition for living pleasantly - undermines the main thesis of Epicurean theory. I will end with two thought experiments that aim to show that, furthermore, the assertion of the second response is false.

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