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Plato form to planning of Socrates' dialogue material life only food, clothing and shelter with these three of the most basic needs physical related, and admits that these need can be satisfied, and also is a limited. According to the man's natural tendency, meet again after the content is more flesh and meaningless, getting entangled in the art of various phenomena are unnecessary, they can't get rid of the flesh and the phenomenon of drag. Only rational meditation is really happy life, because in rational meditation, is one without facing the world, people can drag down, and only beyond various shackle of rational to find complete eternal world.

Opposition party thought people from embroidered clothes to find happiness, rather than because embroidered cover and warm, the so-called mania to the city is refers to the substance of desire. But in this debate, we can see that even in the ancient Greece, known by reason of this desire never disappear, but in reality the dominant spirit of ancient Greece is the perceptual enjoy rejection. The stoics in philosophy of the paper's cheese on different though Plato, at this point he also sees rational life as natural, noble life, he thinks, the rational life is a kind of impervious to anything the life, the impulse and passion, is a natural reaction, can make person lost their independence and freedom.

Greek philosophy late one of the major schools of Epicurus school would start advocate happiness, he's happy including spiritual, including physical, spiritual happiness can be we dominated, so is positive happy; Most of the flesh is upon us happy, so is negative. Even so, negative happy but has a preferential position which is "a narcotic joy". Epicurus about resistance is happy to perceptual demeaning rational speculative, and people that exceed a feeling of superstition. "Epikurean" this word in later age have been has spread to describe those derogatory pursuit of pleasure. When Epicurus to Rome, Roman prosperous has spread to the perceptual pleasure, regale gluttonous became the society of one scene, imperial important consul, executives will open themselves do mass of music. Material comforts has that took negative force that the stoics later Seneca, also said to "firmly grasp the belly, is to move a step" independence, and even though he still dress neatly, and said natural simplicity of life does not equal vulgar.
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