Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics

It's exam day, so we'll be looking at this later (as well as the post-Aristotle questions on quiz #8).

1. Seneca's suicide, at Nero's insistence, is said to have illustrated the importance of stoical  _________ from the absurdities of life.

2. Epicurus had an undeserved reputation as a ________, and Epicureanism is still misunderstood.

3. The Stoics regarded emotions as __________ judgments that create needless suffering and unhappiness, preferring to form only  __________ attachments. (irrational, limited, romantic, friendly)

4. Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus were skeptics who argued that belief of any kind, ________ (including, excluding) belief in reason, is illusory and unjustifiable. This belief, they thought, is a form of ________. (knowledge, therapy, absurdity, contradiction)

5. (T/F) The ancient skeptics considered doubt an unreasonable way of life and a repudiation of wisdom, but insisted that in a chaotic world they had no alternative.