Epikur wrote that: The Man when it is already freed from the fear of gods and death should know that happiness is easy to achieve. Do you actually apply to these two councils can make feel happy? Rather, it will not be sufficient but certainly necessary if we want to celebrate life.
It is the subordination of their own free will and feelings without reason that there is no happiness
What is the purpose of our lives - often asking themselves this question. You can say that everyone sees it as something else, however, it appears that it is possible to infer a common denominator here, each of us wants to be happy. Here there are apparent problems with defining what is happiness, however, on a purely inherent [internal] this dilemma seems to melt. For each of us assuming that they have healthy senses knows what is happiness, or at least be able to assess whether a situation is it well - whether it is wrong. It seems obvious that the state of illness, pain or adverse circumstances may lower our quality of life thus depriving us of luck. It all seems banalnym but not quite so. For questions, we want to put yourself here is:

  • to the extent we have an impact on their own happiness
  • as far as we can to minimize factors that reduce the quality of life
  • whether there is such thing as determinism negative, which means that some units will never be able to be happy


As preached Epikur basic fear that deprives people of happiness is fear of śmiercią.Filozof goes further and says that after death there is absolutely nothing we are not waiting, after death is nothing. He says that after the death of a man can not endure any utrapień, can not endure the torture or happiness. Along with fatal end for all humans. Epikur not poniżał life and at the same time said that we should abandon any hope of a better life after death. Then of course people in the vast majority could not agree to the claims of a philosopher. The man usually will have before them the prospect of suffering than the total loss of individual well-being. Epikur however, was devoted to the truth and not be numbered dlań human desires concerning life after death. Epikur says that man was born again and be born again he will not data. Therefore it is important to realize that no individual is not being sure. Today we live tomorrow we die and do not count on our merits and titles. If someone obłędnie fear of death lives on specific types of psychozie, which may even lead to suicide. You should be grateful for the gifts of life, but does not belong to these gifts be given, because this commitment will umniejszało our earthly happiness.

The proposal that flows from such an equitable reasoning is as follows: We have only one life so we should do everything possible to achieve happiness and to use them properly.

Epikur taught to live upon, the current now as it consists of the our lives. And even if the present is intolerable to us we should not resort in hoping for a better future but the current bad time against our good memories. Not pochwalał suicide and he felt it as a kind of disaster or a small symptom of the spiritual. However, some cases, which allow suicide. Suicide was only permitted if sterile suffering ended. Not yet enjoyed the attitude of people who przeklinali day of their birth and repented, that they live. Zadawał this question why are ongoing, therefore, its existence since the so-pregnancy. In the book Adam Krokiewicza read: Slave love life undoubtedly After calculation, but this worry is not necessary and can be enlightened by the effort itself will liberate it, or pogrąży, but when it chooses, in painless nothingness: Squeeze is evil - he wrote Epikur - but there is no compulsion to live under duress.

Most people feel that happiness is difficult to achieve in life while the evil man can catch anywhere, anytime. Against the general opinion goes Epikur, which as we know now is that what is good, is easy to acquire, and what is bad, easy-to-zniesienia.Najważniejsza in the life of man is a pleasure.

Summit is a total loss of pleasure to pain. Where there is no pleasure or pain or sorrow. Pleasure is on gaining a state bezbolesności.Potrzeba pleasure appears at Epikur when we perceive ból.Epikur talked about the fact that there are natural and necessary desire, natural, but unnecessary and the last or natural or unnecessary - urojone. For example, natural and necessary desire, which is released from pain gave Epikur even drink, which eat when we are thirst. As to the second type of natural desires but niekoniecznych is considered as such those urozmaicają pleasure, but do not prevent pain. Philosopher argued that our happiness is dependent solely on meeting the desires of the natural and necessary. To meet these needs is not required much effort.

In Diogenes Laertiosa can read: Therefore, any pleasure, due to its nature is good, but not all is a decent choice, and similarly, any pain is evil, but not any pain should be avoided. In any case, everything must be carefully examined in terms of usefulness and harm, because it happens sometimes that we take good for evil, and vice versa, evil for good. Moderately consider to be the greatest good, not because we in general have poprzestawać a small, but because we have learned to obyæ anyway and when we visit poverty, in the awareness that the best use of the abundance of the good of those who covet the least, and that this , Which is natural, it is also easy to acquire, and what urojone, barely need gaining.

Wisdom is a good beginning and good at the same time it is the highest source of all other virtues. Human wisdom teaches that it is impossible to live pleasantly if they do not live wisely, fairly and beautiful. You can not live wisely, fairly and beautifully if you do not live pleasantly. Virtues are in the natural unity of a pleasant life without virtues can not exist.

Kogóż you could appreciate the wise man from what zbożnie magnifies the gods, death is no fear at all, understand the ultimate objective of nature, understood that the maximum good can be achieved easily and without difficulty to obtain, and the greatest evil or run short, or makes only slight pain.

Epikur is most interesting in this claim that the moral pain is worse than physical. This philosopher argues that the human body suffers only in the present suffering of the soul but it does cover the present, past and future.

While participation in political life, impedes the work of philosophy and Maciej peace, for coexistence among so many friends in common with them philosophical considerations encourage the development of internal and are a source of great joy. Epikur does not recommend marriage, discourages active participation in political life, while calling for friendship, which values very highly

Epikur said that the friendship is the most precious of all the things you collect in the brains of life. The friendship has been recommended in many schools of philosophy in ancient times. Friendship recommended such schools as pitagorejska, platonic, stoicka School and Aristotle. For Aristotle friendship cause: an advantage, good or pleasure. With proper friendship Aristotle recognized only for the well-being.

Epikur says on the contrary, that friendship is motivated by selfishness responsible and take the advantage. Epicurean being honest to himself admits that it is precisely because of the benefit includes friendships. Hedonista found friendship as the heart of good death, and set it as soon as wisdom. Friendship protects man from earthly evil. Friendship is mutual benefit for each service which helps facilitate human life. The friendship does not always count the same assistance rendered by one side of a second, but very aware that I can count on a friend in need.

Epikurejska friendship is not only imported into banal "economic exchange" - something for something. True friendship was only available to people who podporządkowali his life to reason. Only this man, who was appointed a wise man able to participate in a genuine friendship. You may be wondering why only wise men can chum? Only the wise man is so enlightened, taught that abstinence is the only stems from the attitude on this in order to give more than receive. The wise man may even suffer death by a friend. Interestingly death precludes the possibility of obtaining assistance in the future and if so happens that we can bring friendship to selfishness? If the wise man is able to bear the death of a friend knowingly agrees to the total exclusion of pleasure. Epikur preached that: 'well done is not only beautiful but also fun thing than endure the favors. "The teacher, however, warned against the establishment of friendship too fast and bezkrytycznym relationship to friends.
In friendship, people must help each other to provide themselves and can not have a situation where the benefits will be received only by one party.

Fortunately, within the meaning of Epikur sprowadzało not to cry for przyjemnościami only able to stay pain-free. If in the modern Western world understood happiness in a similar way you could not talk about it, is as deeply rooted in our inability to live happiness. Today's man seems to be a lot more lost than the man who lived in an era Epikur. People do not know how to draw from life and enjoy the beautiful sights of his. Our lives lose to the rule from this image that they could be. Never able to make do with what we have. Our life is a constant quest for what we have, for what we need to win to finally become happy. Unfortunately, the fact gain something for so long that sometimes we're doing it is not soon achieve happiness. Fortunately, what we experience at the time to gain the desired good if it occurs at all disappear very quickly.