Goal of a wiselife - freedom from bodily pain and mental disturbance- need the ability to reason or calculate (logismos) - the faculty that lets us infer by analogy from the visible world to the invisible- and also that with which we may recognize that not all pleasures are to be chosen at all times, since some immediate pleasures may lead to long-term pain What is more, one must know something about the nature of pleasure in order to pursue it rationally, and likewise for pain. empty pleasures, satisfiable pleasures, unsatisfieble pleasure. (hêdonê, algêdôn) . anxiety (tarakhê), joy( khara)happiness (eudaimonia),friendship (or love: philia). philosophy that does not heal the soul is no better than medicine that cannot cure the body A life free of mental anxiety and open to the enjoyment of other pleasures was deemed equal to that of the gods. FREEDOM!
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