Packet 8: Tossup 3

The idea that people should study philosophy no matter the age opens a work by this man which argues that “death is nothing to us.” The idea (15[1])that what is terrible is easy to endure is the last of this thinker’s fourfold cure. The author of (-5[1])Against Empedocles, (15[1])Hermarchus, (-5[1])was the pupil and (15[1])successor of this thinker. This author of the Letter to Menoeceus (15[1])(“meh-NEE-see-us”) taught that the central (-5[1])goal of life is the freedom of fear in order to reach (15[1])(*) ataraxia. (10[4]-5[1])This philosopher (10[1])unusually (-5[1])admitted (10[2])women and slaves to his namesake school based on communal (10[1]-5[1])friendship known (-5[1])as “the (-5[1])Garden.” (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Greek philosopher who taught (10[1])that (-5[1])the highest good in life (10[1])is pleasure. (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[24])

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