The Five Great Philosophies of Life

I. Selections from the Epicurean Scriptures 1 II. The Epicurean View of Work and Play 20 III. The Epicurean Price of Happiness 29 IV. The Defects of Epicureanism 36 V. An Exampl...

I. The Psychological Law of Apperception 66 II. Selections from the Stoic Scriptures 71 III. The Stoic Reverence for Universal Law 82 IV. The Stoic Solution of the Problem of Ev...

I. The Nature of Virtue 110 II. Righteousness writ Large 116 III. The Cardinal Virtues 123 IV. Plato's Scheme of Education 131 V. Righteousness the Comprehensive Virtue 138 VI....

I. Aristotle's Objections to Previous Systems 169 II. The Social Nature of Man 176 III. Right and Wrong determined by the End 179 IV. The Need of Instruments 191 V. The Happy Me...

I. The Teaching of Love 215 II. The Fulfilment of Law through Love 219 III. The Counterfeits of Love 239 IV. The Whole-heartedness of Love 247 V. The Cultivation of Love 257 VI....

Epicureanism is so simple a philosophy of life that it scarcely needs interpretation. In fact, as the following citations show, it was originally little more than a set of direc...

The shortest way to understand the Stoic principle is through the psychological doctrine of apperception. According to this now universally accepted doctrine, the mind is not an...

Epicureanism tells us how to gain pleasure; Stoicism tells us how to bear pain. But life is not so simple as these systems assume. It is not merely the problem of getting all th...

Our principles of personality thus far, though increasingly complex, have all been comparatively simple. To get the maximum of pleasure; to keep the universal law; to subordinat...

The first, though most vital and effective of all, is expensive and wasteful. For in life principles are so embedded in "muddy particulars," trivial and sordid details, that the...