Taking virtue seriously
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published 20/07/2008
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SummaryIn the present paper I will examine Cicero’s charge in De Finibus that Epicurean theory does not, as it were, take virtue seriously. I will then lay out two Epicurean responses to Cicero’s objection. I will show that the first response – that Epicurean theory may both take virtue seriously and maintain its hedonistic core – fails as both a descriptive claim and as a normative claim. I will then explain how the second response – that virtue is a necessary and sufficient condition for living pleasantly – undermines the main thesis of Epicurean theory. I will end with two thought experiments that aim to show that, furthermore, the assertion of the second response is false.
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