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    Epicureanism is a system of philosophy founded around 307 BCE based upon the teachings of Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher. Epicurus was an atomist...
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    that the theodicy argument is from a non-Epicurean or anti-Epicurean academic source. The oldest preserved version of this trilemma appears in the writings...
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    The Epicurean is a novel by Thomas Moore, published in 1827. It relates the story of Alciphron, leader of the Epicurean sect in Athens in the 3rd century...
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    Epicurus (redirect from Epicurean trilemma)
    Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents...
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  • Look up Epicurean, epicurean, or epicure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Epicureanism is a system of philosophy developed by Epicurus ca. 300 BCE...
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  • The New Epicurean: The Delights of Sex, Facetiously and Philosophically Considered, in Graphic Letters Addressed to Young Ladies of Quality is a Victorian...
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    Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), written...
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  • philosophers List of Epicurean philosophers List of Stoic philosophers Aristotle, Metaphysics Alpha, 983b18. Russell, Bertrand. "The History of Western...
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  • BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, and head of the Epicurean school in Athens. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he was surnamed Tyrant of the Garden (Greek:...
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  • Πάτρων) was an Epicurean philosopher. He lived for some time in Rome, where he became acquainted, among others, with Cicero, and with the family of Gaius...
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  • 219/18 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher, and head (scholarch) of the Epicurean school in Athens. He succeeded Hermarchus as head of the sect c. 250 BC,...
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  • Βασιλείδης; c. 250 – c. 175 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens. c. 205 CE. It...
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  • Epicurean was a compilation of early work by The Orchids, released by Sarah Records in 1992. "Peaches" "A place called Home" "Tiny Words" "Moon Lullaby"...
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  • Φαῖδρος; 138 – 70/69 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher. He was the head (scholarch) of the Epicurean school in Athens after the death of Zeno of Sidon around...
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  • Siro (also Syro, Siron, or Syron; fl. c. 50 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher who lived in Naples. He was a teacher of Virgil, and taught at his school...
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    dialogues, over five books, in which Cicero discusses the philosophical views of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Platonism of Antiochus of Ascalon (whose hybrid...
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  • Hedonism (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    unearthed at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum are Epicurean texts. At least some are thought to have belonged to the Epicurean Philodemus. The concept...
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    philosophers. Philosophy portal List of ancient Greek philosophers List of ancient Platonists List of Cynic philosophers List of Epicurean philosophers...
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    Ataraxia (category Epicureanism)
    is a key component of the Epicurean conception of pleasure (hedone), which they consider the highest good.: 117–121  Epicureans break pleasure down into...
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    Gaius Cassius Longinus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    by Roman Epicureans as incompatible with the highest good of pleasure, defined as freedom from pain. Tyranny also threatened the Epicurean value of parrhesia...
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  • of Epicureanism: Epicurus of Samos, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Hermarchus of Mitilene and Polyaenus of Lampsacus. The first four doctrines make up the Tetrapharmakos...
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    epicureanism as equally inferior to Christianity. Valla's defense, or adaptation, of Epicureanism was later taken up in The Epicurean by Erasmus, the...
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  • This is a list of Epicurean philosophers, ordered (roughly) by date. See also Category:Epicurean philosophers. List of ancient Greek philosophers List...
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  • Hedone (category Epicureanism)
    is the Greek word meaning "pleasure." It was an important concept in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially in the Epicurean school. It is also the root...
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    Epicurean Markets was an American niche grocery store chain based in Southwest Houston, Houston, Texas. There is now just one supermarket left of the...
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    Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is...
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    legacy in the form of presidential messages, letters, and public papers. Jefferson described himself as an Epicurean and, although he adopted the Stoic belief...
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    in 31 BC. The dominant schools of this period were the Stoics, the Epicureans and the Skeptics. The Preceding classical period in Ancient Greek philosophy...
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    New York) was the chef at Delmonico's Restaurant in New York from 1862 to 1876 and 1879 to 1896. Ranhofer was the author of The Epicurean (1894), an encyclopedic...
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    Socrates (redirect from Socrates the Wise)
    impact was immense in philosophy after his death. With the exception of the Epicureans and the Pyrrhonists, almost all philosophical currents after Socrates...
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