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    Challenges→Immediate, particular pleasures are the end or goal of life, not pleasure in general or long-term pleasure.

    The Cyrenaics' reduction of the good to episodic sensation therefore conflates the felt quality of an experience with the structured, activity-grounded account eudaimonia requires.

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    Key Terms

    Activity-grounded account(as a framework for understanding human flourishing)
    An explanation of 'the good' that focuses on what you actively do and build over time, rather than just how you feel in isolated moments.
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Cyrenaics(as a philosophical school of thought)
    An ancient Greek philosophical school that believed the ultimate good in life is experiencing pleasure and avoiding pain, particularly moment-to-moment physical sensations.
    Episodic sensation(as a type of experience)
    Isolated, individual moments of feeling or physical sensation that exist separately from each other, rather than as part of a larger pattern.
    Reduction (philosophical)

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    (describes what Schleiermacher does to religion)
    The act of explaining something complex by breaking it down to one simpler element—in this case, claiming that all of religion can be understood as just a feeling.
    eudaimonia(Aristotle's ethical theory; the broadest sense of the good life)
    Often translated as 'happiness'; for Aristotle, consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, requiring both virtuous qualities/dispositions and acting on them

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