Exam 15: Egoism,pleasure,and Indifference

The ______ reacted to the collapse of the closed social system of the city-states by offering advice to individuals in what for them was a crumbling world.

Epicurus,an early hedonist concluded that the aim of human existence should be ______.

Stoics assumed that good or evil depends on the ______.

According to Stoics,our ______ are not to be taken into account,and we ought to be indifferent to them.

Hinman (1998)argues that ______ does not amount to a moral theory at all.

Stoicism dominated Roman thinking about moral philosophy until ______ replaced it.

If a particular act would benefit our own self-interest as well as the interests of others,that act will not be considered contrary to the goals of ethical egoism.

Stoicism preaches that people should be ______.

An early advocate of Hedonism was the Greek philosopher ______.

Proponents of ______ suspect that altruistic explanations of behavior are superficial and without substance.

Ayn Rand was a supporter of the theory of ______.

Ethical egoism is consistent with Kant's theory of duty.

Stoics and ______ would agree that one cannot become just or courageous if one behaves in an unjust or cowardly manner.

______ would respond to issues such as world hunger by claiming that starving people should be helped only when it is their own self-interest to do so.

What is attained by philosophical understanding and practical wisdom?

The hedonist believes that pleasure ______.

Proponents of ethical egoism suspect that altruistic explanations of behavior are superficial and without substance.

Epicurius stated that the "aim" of human existence was ______.

For ethical hedonists,the question of how one ought to live is answered by the idea that the good life consists of a life of pleasure and that a person ought to act in such a way as to acquire pleasure.

Epicurus's main aim was to establish a philosophy concerned with the attainment of ______.