Chapter 5

• What is a Good Life?


  One of the oldest philosophical questions.
• Plato and Socrates


  Emphasizes a good life on virtue.
• Epicurus


  Emphasizes a good life on pleasure.
• Aristotle


  Views a good life on happiness.
• One basic way to use the word "good" is to express moral approval.
• Hedonism


  View that pleasure is what makes life worth living.
• Epicure


  Is someone who is especially appreciative of food and drink.
• Hedonist


  Suggests that they are devoted to "lower pleasures".
• Ten Golden Rules on Living a Good Life


  1.) Examine Life.

  2.) Worry about the things that you can control.

  3.) Treasure Friendship

  4.) Experience True Pleasure

  5.) Master Yourself

  6.) Avoid Excess

  7.) Be A Responsible Human Being

  8.) Don't Be A Prosperous Fool

  9.) Don't Do Evil to Others

  10.) Kindness Towards Others Tend to be Rewarded
• Ronaldo Gripaldo


  a Filipino philosopher who argues that the concept of the public good carries largely the politico-ethical sense.
• Examine Life


  Engage life with a vengeance; always search for new pleasures and new destinies to reach with your mind.
• Treasure Friendship


  The reciprocal attachment that fills the need for afilliation.
• Experience True Pleasure.


  Avoid shallow and transient pleasures.
• Master Yourself


  Resist any external force that might delimit thought and action.
• Avoid Excess


  Live life in harmony and balance.
• Be A Responsible Human Being


  Approach yourself with honesty and thoroughness.
• Don't Be A Prosperous Fool


  Prosperity by itself is not a cure.
• Don't Do Evil To Others


  Evil doing is a dangerous habit, a kind of reflex too quickly resorted to anf too easily justified.
• Kindness towards others tends to be rewarded.


  Kindness to others is a good habit.
• Michael Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas wrote the "Ten Golden Rules on Living a Good Life"
• Two Levels Of Public Good


  1.) Self

  2.) Government