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    citizen. Epicurus grew up during the final years of the Greek Classical Period. Plato had died seven years before Epicurus was born and Epicurus was seven...
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    philosophy founded 307 BCE based upon the teachings of Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher. Epicurus was an atomist and materialist, following in the steps...
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    dilemma about the problem of evil attributed to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who argued against the existence of a god who is simultaneously omniscient...
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  • Eudaimonia (section Epicurus)
    eudaimonia refers to an individual's well-being. Epicurus' doctrine can be considered eudaimonist since Epicurus argues that a life of pleasure will coincide...
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  • before the historical Epicurus was even born), as backwards, foolish, fascistic, or all three, while the philosophy of Epicurus is portrayed to be more...
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  • may have been wrongly attributed to Epicurus by Lactantius, who, from his Christian perspective, regarded Epicurus as an atheist. According to Mark Joseph...
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  • of friends. Since most of Epicurus' 37 books "On Nature" are lost to us, the Principal Doctrines are, together with Epicurus' Letters to Herodotus, Menoeceus...
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    He passionately defends Epicurus in Book 10, which is of high quality and contains three long letters attributed to Epicurus explaining Epicurean doctrines...
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  • deterministically caused. Epicurus did not say the swerve was directly involved in decisions. But following Aristotle, Epicurus thought human agents have...
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  • of the soul and that tranquility arises from it. In the philosophy of Epicurus, hēdonē is described as a pleasure that may or may not derive from actions...
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  • world. This interest in using philosophy to improve life was captured in Epicurus' claim that "empty are the words of that philosopher who offers therapy...
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  • of the Garden, the school in which Epicurus taught philosophy, some people in the Greco-Roman world regarded Epicurus as their "Savior" (Koinē Greek: Σωτήρ...
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    (2002). Epicurus and Democritean Ethics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 129–130. Warren, Epicurus and Democritean Ethics, pp. 131-132 Warren, Epicurus and...
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    deterministically caused. Epicurus did not say the swerve was directly involved in decisions. But following Aristotle, Epicurus thought human agents have...
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  • Atomism (section Epicurus)
    the form of flesh. Epicurus (341–270 BCE) studied atomism with Nausiphanes who had been a student of Democritus. Although Epicurus was certain of the...
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    Cassius famously converted to the school of thought founded by Epicurus. Although Epicurus advocated a withdrawal from politics, at Rome his philosophy...
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    Hypochrysops epicurus, the dull jewel, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in Australia. "Hypochrysops epicurus Miskin, 1876" at Markku Savela's...
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  • his 1704 Tale of a Tub ix.166, satirizing the atomistic theory of Epicurus: Epicurus modestly hoped that one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse...
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  • ancient Greek mathematician and a friend of Epicurus. He was the son of Athenodorus. His friendship with Epicurus started after the latter's escape from Mytilene...
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  • philosophy: On Nature (Anaximander) On Nature (Empedocles) On Nature (Epicurus) On Nature (Heraclitus) On Nature (Melissus) On Nature (Parmenides) On...
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  • then why does evil exist? Although traditionally ascribed to Epicurus and called Epicurus' trilemma, it has been suggested that it may actually be the...
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  • Platypus Walk Into a Bar co-written with Thomas Cathcart. and Travels With Epicurus. Klein went to school at Harvard College where he received a B.A. in philosophy...
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  • throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. — Epicurus Epicurus (c. 341 – c. 270 BCE), the founder of Epicureanism, taught that the...
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  • Plutarch, Colotes, upon hearing Epicurus discourse on the nature of things, fell on his knees before him, and besought Epicurus to give him instruction. Plutarch...
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  • that was a major forerunner of modern science. Though ostensibly a deist, Epicurus affirmed the literal existence of the Greek gods in either some type of...
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    doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us." The 29th of Epicurus' 40 Principal...
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  • reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, but some understand that the term is derived from his name. Epicurus was a materialist philosopher whose...
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    he joined the school Epicurus had set up in their home town. Timocrates, however, soon fell out with both his brother and Epicurus and devoted the rest...
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    ideas rested on very different bases. Democritus, along with Leucippus and Epicurus, proposed the earliest views on the shapes and connectivity of atoms. They...
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  • on Hedonism Thinkers Aristippus Aristippus the Younger Jeremy Bentham Epicurus Fred Feldman Pierre Gassendi Esperanza Guisán Hermarchus Jovinian Ajita...
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