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Question 71

Which teaching belongs with Epicurus and the community he founded, the Garden?

  1. The best pleasure is freedom from pain and disturbance.Correct answer
  2. The best life requires limitless luxury and excess.
  3. Pleasure has no place at all in a good life.
  4. The Garden trained citizens only for military command.

Explanation

Epicurus treated the best pleasure chiefly as the absence of bodily suffering and mental disturbance. Endless luxury is the nearest misconception because it mistakes his restrained ideal for constant sensory excess.

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