Horace

Like most of the people I have told you about in my study of English 2, Horace had some views of specific things along with similar views of past philosophers.  He believed in that the followers of Epicureanism and Stoicism were on the right track on philosophy.

Seneca and Roman Art

Seneca (not Seneca Crane) was a tutor, an adviser, a writer, a moral philosopher, etc.  He was a tutor and then an adviser to the emperor Nero.  He was a philosopher, but he didn’t come up with his own ideas of what life means, is, will be, etc.  He was more of a philosopher who believed in another philosopher’s beliefs.  He believed in similar lines around Aristotle’s Ethics (link tells you a bit about the Ethics, if you don’t know about it).

Liberty and Epicureanism

Liberty to us is quite different from what it was then in Ancient Greece for example.  What’s the difference?  What do we think, or in this case me/you, about how the ancients looked at liberty?  Also Epicureanism, do you know what that is?  If not, or even if you do know, join me as we go back in time yet again to Ancient Greece.

Aristotle’s Ethics

We all like good, right?  We all want the good stuff.  We all want that toy that will just brighten our day, that special something that we’re just dying to have, or that new 27-inch-TV screen that will complete our life.  Why do we want these things? Because that toy, 27-inch-TV screen, or that something will make us happy.  In other words, eudaimonia (Greek word for happiness), which was used by Aristotle in his work, Ethics.

Socrates and Plato

Socrates opposed what the Sophists believed.  They believed that there was no right and wrong.  In other words, you could do whatever you wanted and that would be just fine.  Socrates totally disagreed.