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Epicurus Identified Good with Pleasure and Evil with Pain

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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.
-According to Epicurus, the aim of a blessed life is


A) a profligate life.
B) the soul's freedom from sensation.
C) suffering.
D) the soul's freedom from disturbance.

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