Question

1. According to Epicurus, what is the greatest possession?

A. Money

B. Health

C. Wisdom

D. Friendship

2. Of the following, which does Epictetus advise?

A. Some things are up to us, some are not up to us

B. It is not thinks that upset people but rather ideas about things

C. Don’t seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do

D. All of the above

3. Describe Epicurus and Epictetus's personality, what they believed and stood for; and their stance of the death of loved ones.

Answer 1

1. D. Friendship

According to Epicurus, friendship is the greatest possession.

2. C. Don’t seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do.

3. Epicurus, reason teaches that pleasure is good and that pain is bad, and that pleasure and pain are the ultimate measures of good and bad. This has often been misconstrued as a call for rampant hedonism, rather than the absence of pain and tranquillity of mind that Epicurus actually had in mind.And then there is Epictetus, on the complete opposite, who was born as a slave. That's what makes Stoicism so powerful: it can provide timeless principles to help us in both good and bad fortune, no matter our station our life.He is considered one of the greatest Stoic philosophers, believing that to live a virtuous life guided by philosophy is the way to achieve happiness. Epictetus believed that people felt anxiety because they tried to control that which is beyond their control.