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HoP 333 - Difficult to Be Good - Humanist Ethics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Stoics and the Epicureans Are Both Wrong

Vala's Stoics sees human nature as all but inevitably prone to sin and evil indulgence in pleasures. Epicurean theory is meant to emerge as the more attractive option, writes John Sutter. A Christian hedonist can look ahead to an everlasting and exceedingly pleasant reward in heaven," says Sutter.

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