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erika · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

The Stoics view of the emotions was that

a. the best life is one in which I am no longer controlled by my emotions.
b. it is necessary to express my emotions to be a fulfilled human being.
c. pleasure and desire are good emotions but grief and fear are to be avoided.
d. the only emotions that are necessary and unavoidable are pleasure, desire, grief, and fear.

Question 2

One way the Stoics tried to solve the problem of evil was to argue that

a. there is one God, but he is impersonal and oblivious to human needs.
b. evil is a result of the war between the God of Light and the God of Darkness.
c. some evils are the necessary means for realizing something that is supremely good.
d. since the universe has no ultimate purpose, evil results from the random motion of atoms.