Exam 7: The Hellenistic ERA

According to the skeptic Sextus Empiricus, nothing can be known.

Stoicism holds that the universe is a kind of organizing being, or __________.

According to Epictetus, our __________ are up to us, but our __________ are not.

Sextus Empiricus advances fifteen arguments in support of skepticism, all of which share a general form.

The ideal Stoic is someone who is completely emotionless.

Stoicism preaches cosmopolitanism, the view that __________.

Sextus Empiricus says that skeptics manage to get through life fine just by attending to appearances.

Hedonism is identical with gluttony.

Atomism is the belief that reality consists of a(n) __________ number of minute, indivisible bits called atoms moving rapidly in a(n) __________ void.

According to Epicurus, the desire for happiness and the desire for physical comfort are both __________ desires.

The skeptic Sextus Empiricus endorses the view that our lack of knowledge should motivate us to seek absolute truth.

The skeptic claims that the most reasonable response to a lack of knowledge is to suspend judgment.

Sextus Empiricus's ten arguments show that __________ only provides part of the epistemological picture.

Epicurus claims that death is nothing to us because the soul is immortal.

Stoicism is the view that __________

The only real harm that can be done to a person, according to __________, is self-inflicted injury to the soul by a lack of virtue

Stoicism is the view that we can attain happiness and peace of mind if we focus on controlling only what is up to us and ignoring what is not up to us.

According to the skeptic, the goal of life is to achieve peace of mind.

Stoicism has been attractive to many because it offers itself as a(n) __________.

According to Epicurus, pleasures are __________.