September 11, 2026
- Writing assignment one due September 18, workshop is tuesday 15, wednesday 16
- The Good Life
- What is “the good life?” What is most important?
- How do you know you are living the good life
- Thinking you are living the good life
- Short term pleasure, long term pain
- Accomplishment leading to happiness/good life
- Different forms of freedoms and autonomy
- Essential rights, essential wants
- What matters and what doesn’t matter
- Happiness and pleasure
- Never too early to start thinking about what the good life is,
striving to lead the good life (Epicurus)
- Epicureanism
- Epicurus
- Hedonist
- Materialist
- Only matter in the world (atoms in the void)
- Soul is just material (no afterlife)
- “Our world is an accidental and temporary alignment of
atoms”
- Believes in god, they have to be material, live a perfect life of bliss
that do not follow humans
- Hellenistic Period after Cleopatra dies
- Philosophy should help you
- Philosophy to heal the soul and make your life
better
- Founded The Garden
- Friendship is a core part of life
- Life of practical reasoning
- False ideas are what make an individual's life hard
- Irrational pain
- “When we are, death is not come. When death is come, we are not”
- When we are alive you aren’t dead, you shouldn’t live your
life fearing death because when you are dead it doesn’t
matter
- Live in the moment and don’t ruin the present because
death is nothing to humans
- Writing assignment one due September 18, workshop is tuesday 15, wednesday 16
- The Good Life
- What is “the good life?” What is most important?
- How do you know you are living the good life
- Thinking you are living the good life
- Short term pleasure, long term pain
- Accomplishment leading to happiness/good life
- Different forms of freedoms and autonomy
- Essential rights, essential wants
- What matters and what doesn’t matter
- Happiness and pleasure
- Never too early to start thinking about what the good life is,
striving to lead the good life (Epicurus)
- Epicureanism
- Epicurus
- Hedonist
- Materialist
- Only matter in the world (atoms in the void)
- Soul is just material (no afterlife)
- “Our world is an accidental and temporary alignment of
atoms”
- Believes in god, they have to be material, live a perfect life of bliss
that do not follow humans
- Hellenistic Period after Cleopatra dies
- Philosophy should help you
- Philosophy to heal the soul and make your life
better
- Founded The Garden
- Friendship is a core part of life
- Life of practical reasoning
- False ideas are what make an individual's life hard
- Irrational pain
- “When we are, death is not come. When death is come, we are not”
- When we are alive you aren’t dead, you shouldn’t live your
life fearing death because when you are dead it doesn’t
matter
- Live in the moment and don’t ruin the present because
death is nothing to humans
