Each group have to do a presentation where explicated his life, his society, his works, books and tittles, and the philosophy of each philosopher.
Epicurus was an important philosopher that lived in Ancient Greece. He founded a philosophy called Epicureanism. It was based on getting the happines and tranquility through fulfilment of pleasures.
The most of his works disappeared, because Christianity condemned his philosophy. He founded a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of him called epicureanism arround 307 BC. Basically he believed in Ataraxia that means perfect happiness. In Epicurus opinion to achieve Ataraxia you should avoid pain.
Socrates was an important individual who certainly left his mark on how people evaluate the world around them, and his ideas still shape a lot of educational philosophy and logia thought.All the scientist who lived before Socrates were called the pre-Socrates. Socrates died for his beliefs about citizenship and he died under the death penalty. Socrates believed that bad behaviour was the result of lack of knowledge and could be corrected through learning and better understanding.Plato was born in Athens in 428BC. He was a classical greek philosopher and matemathican. The most important virtues of him was
- Wisdom: Apply laws (original ideas).
- Courage: Channel rage → Good things.
- Moderation: Control bodily appetites.
Stoicism derives its name from the Painted Porch in the market place... of Athens, where it was first taught. It was founded by Zeno of Citium (or Cyprus) (335-263 BC) and became one of the two principal philosophical schools of the Hellenistic world. Later Stoics believed that the universe was created by fire and would be destroyed by fire, before being created again. People who believed in this ethics were called “Stoics”. The stoics have a very negative idea about pleasure and emotions, so their goal is to have a clear mind. They defended that the emotions can get in the way of your performance in your daily life. For example, if someone that you love so much dies, you don't have to cry because probably you are going to do in a badway your job or your obligations.
During this work, we argued a lot with Antonio, because he told us that we have to do an exam about every philosophers. We have to make notes when we'd see the presentations. This is very difficult, therefore at the beginning we are goint to refuse doing the exam.
Finally, we spoke with Antonio and noticed that the test not are so difficult.
The 27th of April, we explained our philosophers to the rest of the class. A group didn't do that, because a member don't come to class.
