Epicurus' ethics Similarities to Aristotle's starting-place for ethics Psychological and ethical hedonism Proofs of hedonism Types of pleasure: kinetic/static, bodily/mental, relationships between these types Good vs. choiceworthy, bad vs. to be avoided Types of desires, characteristics of each type The virtues, relationship of each to prudence, reasons for endorsing them Value of wisdom, both practical and theoretical Friendship Death Justice our preconception of justice basic form of the justice contract reason for entering into it justice and animals, other countries free-riding motives for acting justly, value of justice justice and relativism Stoics on fate and freedom Nature of god for the Stoics How god ensures that what he fates will occur The 'lazy argument' Chrysippus on 'co-fating' Why deliberation and action still make a difference when everything is fated Stoic ethics The end and nature; different senses of 'nature' Oikeiosis-what is it