What are Epicureanism and stoicism both examples of? How does materialism create the problem of solipsism, and how does idealism solve it? What are some examples of utopia from philosophy and literature? What are examples of categorical propositions? What are the philosophical underpinnings of descrip...
Self-control in the choice and limitation of pleasures with a view to reducing pain to a minimum was indispensable. This view informed the Epicurean maxim “Of all this, the beginning, and the greatest good, is prudence.” This negative side of Epicureanism developed to such an extent that ...