Author Question: One difference between psychological hedonism and ethical hedonism is that a. Epicurus believed ... (Read 73 times)

jman1234 · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

One difference between psychological hedonism and ethical hedonism is that

a. Epicurus believed in the first but not the second.
b. psychological hedonism is a claim about human motivation, but not about what is good.
c. the psychological hedonist claims any pleasure is good, while the ethical hedonist says only the moral pleasures are good.
d. there is no difference because the two labels refer to identical claims.

Question 2

Epicurus differed from Democritus by claiming that

a. the body is made up of atoms, but the soul is immaterial.
b. a life of quiet, peaceful pleasures is the best one.
c. the number of atoms is limited, not infinite.
d. the atoms can spontaneously deviate from their paths.