Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0217 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stoics, Epicureans, Cynics
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The idea
Barred from politics, Hellenistic philosophers turned to personal ethics: how to live in tranquility. Epicureans withdrew from public drama and feared neither gods nor death. Stoics did their duty under fate. Cynics rejected convention.
In practice
Knowledge of the world widening meanwhile, from Ethiopia to India.
Where people slip
The exam contrasts Epicurean pleasure with Stoic duty; the anchor's point is that both sought calm.
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