| 1. The highest pleasure is tranquility and freedom from fear |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 2. Most of man’s problems are due to a flawed mental attitude |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 3. Personal pleasure is the greatest good |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 4. Maintaining personal pleasure is the purpose of existence |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 5. Abstinence from pleasure is the most important method of achieving virtue |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 6. Hardship must be endured with grace and dignity in order to have any meaning |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 7. There is no spiritual world, only the material—belief otherwise is superstition |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 8. Wealth and other pleasures corrupt man’s ability to reason and are therefore harmful |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 9. There is a world beyond this |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 10. Man’s highest end is self-knowledge and self-realization |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 11. Man is meant to enjoy simple pleasures and abstain from excess |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 12. Man should live sensibly and simply in order to achieve peace with himself |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 13. Self-indulgence is the greatest sin |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 14. The soul dies with the body |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 15. The development of virtue is the purpose of existence |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 16. One major purpose of friendship is to make good men better |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 17. Man exists for and in himself alone |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 18. There is no afterlife, so our actions, in the end, do not matter |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 19. The gods—if they exist—are material rather than spiritual and do not interfere with man |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 20. Virtue is knowledge |
Disagree |
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Agree |
