Epicurus Identified Good with Pleasure and Evil with Pain

question 6

True/False

Epicurus identified good with pleasure and evil with pain. This doctrine (repeated later in Bentham) is called "hedonism" (from the Greek word for pleasure). However, contrary to popular opinion, Epicurus was not proposing what "Epicureanism" sometimes has been taken to mean: a sensuous, profligate life. He believed that the true life of pleasure consists in an attitude of imperturbable emotional calm that needs only simple pleasures, a good diet, health, a prudent moral life, and good friends. Only good or bad sensations (pleasure or pain, respectively) should concern us, and death is not a sensation, so we should not fear death.
-Epicurus is an atheist.

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Disjuncts

In logic and grammar, parts of a disjunctive proposition that express alternatives, where the truth of any one implies the falsehood of the other(s).

Conjuncts

Components of a compound statement formed by the word "and" indicating all elements must be true.

Disjunction

A logical operation that results in true if at least one of the operands is true.

Conditional

A statement or proposition that asserts that one thing is true if another thing is true, typically formulated as "If P, then Q."