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a seducing effect on the rational nature of man. The Epicureans' ideal life is one of attaining highest happiness by employing prudence, discrimination, self-control, and wisdom in choosing enduring happiness which is also free from accompanying pains. By properly balancing pleasure over pain the highest happiness is sought. It consists in properly harmonising the various urges and emotions rather than in suppressing some parts of it entirely. They were refined hedonists and their ideal of life is the highest happiness of the wise. They tried to live a natural life and did not overemphasize any one part of it.
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The highest Good is happiness, according to Plato. According to Plato, the highest happiness can be achieved by contemplating the world of Ideas and the Good, and thus, to free oneself from the bonds of flesh, from the trammels of the body in which the soul is confined, and by means of virtue and wisdom to become like God, even in this life. This can be attained in a mystical intuitive experience. Plato gives an emphasis on the subjugation of the animal passions and impulses. Aristotle, on the contrary, thinks of the highest happiness which is of the eudæmonistic nature. In this happiness, of course, he gives predominance to rationality but he does not neglect the emotions and passions, which Plato did. His reason does not grow at the cost of emotions. He tries to harmonize all the aspects of the human life and seeks to achieve an all-round development of human life as guided by the superior element of human life, i.e., by reason. His ideal is not
