Editing Pleasure (section)

=== Hellenistic philosophy ===
The ancient [[Cyrenaics]] posited pleasure as the universal aim for all people. Later, [[Epicurus]] defined the highest pleasure as [[aponia]] (the absence of pain),<ref name="Epicurus1">[http://www.epicurism.info/etexts/PD.html The Forty Principal Doctrines], Number III.</ref> and pleasure as "freedom from pain in the body and freedom from turmoil in the soul".<ref name="Epicurus2">[http://wiki.epicurus.info/Letter_to_Menoeceus Letter to Menoeceus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013132500/http://wiki.epicurus.info/Letter_to_Menoeceus |date=2008-10-13 }}, Section 131-2.</ref> According to [[Cicero]] (or rather his character Torquatus) Epicurus also believed that pleasure was the [[chief good]] and pain the chief evil.<ref name="Epicurus3">[http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/De_Finibus.html#IX, About the Ends of Goods and Evils, Book I] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209054419/http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/De_Finibus.html |date=2013-12-09 }}, From Section IX, Torquatus sets out his understanding of Epicurus's philosophy.</ref> The [[Pyrrhonism|Pyrrhonist]] philosopher [[Aenesidemus]] claimed that following Pyrrhonism's prescriptions for [[philosophical skepticism]] produced pleasure.<ref>[[Eusebius]] ''[[Praeparatio Evangelica]]'' Chapter 18</ref>