* The Garden of Epicurus-useful summary of the teachings of Epicurus

Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus ( c. 341 – c.

Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus, founded around 307 BCE.

Epicurus ' materialist theories that the gods were physical beings composed of atoms who were unconcerned with human affairs and had not created the universe, and his general teaching that one's own pleasure, rather than service to God, was the greatest good were essentially irreconcilable with Christian teachings.

Other adherents to the teachings of Epicurus included the poet Horace, whose famous statement Carpe Diem (" Seize the Day ") illustrates the philosophy, as well as Lucretius, as he showed in his De Rerum Natura.

* Epicureanism, a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus, is founded ( approximate date ).

Epicureanism, based on the teachings of the Athens-based philosopher Epicurus, flourished from about the fourth century BC to the third century AD.

In The Consolations of Philosophy, de Botton attempts to demonstrate how the teachings of philosophers such as Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Seneca, and Socrates can be applied to modern everyday woes such as unpopularity, feelings of inadequacy, financial worries, broken hearts, and the general problem of suffering.

Having achieved his thesis on the Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus in 1841, the young Marx progressively broke away with the Prussian university and its teachings impregnated by German Idealism ( Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel ).

Followers of Epicurus studied the teachings of this moral and natural philosopher.

Pleasure and pain were ultimately, for Epicurus, the basis for the moral distinction between good and evil.

The atomic poems ( such as ' All Things are Governed by Atoms ') and natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish were influenced by Epicurus.

In 1584 Giordano Bruno suggested that the stars were like the Sun, and may have other planets, possibly even Earth-like, in orbit around them, an idea that had been suggested earlier by the ancient Greek philosophers, Democritus and Epicurus, and by medieval Islamic cosmologists such as Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.

Forms of hedonism were put forward by Aristippus and Epicurus ; Aristotle argued that eudaimonia is the highest human good and Augustine wrote that " all men agree in desiring the last end, which is happiness.

Several of these Herculaneum papyri which are unrolled and deciphered were found to contain a large number of works by Philodemus, a late Hellenistic Epicurean, and Epicurus himself, attesting to the school's enduring popularity.

Epicurus ' view was that there were gods, but that they were neither willing nor able to prevent evil.

Outstanding in the Hellenistic period were Epicurus, the philosopher of moderation ; Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism ; and Diogenes of Sinope, the famous Cynic.

It appears from Cicero that he possessed an estate on which were the ruins of Epicurus ' house, and that he had determined to build on the site a house for himself.

After the time of the younger Aristippus, the school broke up into different factions, represented by Anniceris, Hegesias, and Theodorus, who all developed rival interpretations of Cyrenaic doctrines, many of which were responses to the new system of hedonistic philosophy laid down by Epicurus.

To some extent these philosophers were all trying to meet the challenge laid down by Epicureanism, and the success of Epicurus was in developing a system of philosophy which would prove to be more comprehensive and sophisticated than its rivals.

Epicurus maintained that the unhappiness and degradation of humankind arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the gods, from terror of their wrath, which was supposed to be displayed by the misfortunes inflicted in this life, and by the everlasting tortures which were the lot of the guilty in a future state, or where these feelings were not strongly developed, from a vague dread of gloom and misery after death.

One generation after Aristotle, Epicurus argued that as atoms moved through the void, there were occasions when they would " swerve " from their otherwise determined paths, thus initiating new causal chains.

With these fellow citizens he moved to Athens, where they founded a school of philosophy with Epicurus as head, or hegemon, while Polyaenus, Hermarchus and Metrodorus were kathegemones.

A group of Lampsacenes were in the circle of Epicurus ; they included Polyaenus of Lampsacus ( c. 340 – 278 BC ) a mathematician, the philosophers Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Colotes the satirist and Leonteus of Lampsacus ; Batis of Lampsacus the wife of Idomeneus, was the sister of Metrodorus of Lampsacus ( the younger ), whose elder brother, also a friend of Epicurus, was Timocrates of Lampsacus.

Other declamations, only known from the excerpts in Photius, were imaginary orations put into the mouth of famous persons -- Demosthenes advocating the recall of Aeschines from banishment, Hypereides supporting the policy of Demosthenes, Themistocles inveighing against the king of Persia, an orator unnamed attacking Epicurus for atheism before Julian at Constantinople.

His ideas were likely partly derived from the atomic theories of Democritus and Epicurus.

Nevertheless, the century had a number of writers who were considered " libertine "; these authors ( like Théophile de Viau ( 1590 – 1626 ) and Charles de Saint-Evremond ( 1610 – 1703 )), inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, professed doubts of religious or moral matters during a period of increasingly reactionary religious fervor.

Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau ( 1590-1626 ) and Charles de Saint-Evremond ( 1610-1703 ), who were inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius.

This triad, as well as the egalitarianism of Epicurus, was carried forward into the American freedom movement and Declaration of Independence, by the American founding father, Thomas Jefferson, as " all men are created equal " and endowed with certain " inalienable rights ," such as " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

According to Epicurus, the basic means for our understanding of things are the ' sensations ' ( aestheses ), ' concepts ' ( prolepsis ), ' emotions ' ( pathe ) and the ' focusing of thought into an impression ' ( phantastikes epiboles tes dianoias ).

The Syntagma philosophicum sub-divides, according to the usual fashion of the Epicureans, into logic ( which, with Gassendi as with Epicurus, is truly canonic ), physics and ethics.

Sedgwick had chosen to follow the philosophy of Epicurus whom, with his followers, Dante put in hell ; ;

Entering the University of Leiden he took his degree in philosophy in 1689, with a dissertation De distinctione mentis a corpore ( on the difference of the mind from the body ), in which he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza.

Democritus ' atomist philosophy was later adopted by Epicurus ( 341 – 270 BCE ).

Marx's doctoral thesis concerned the atomism of Epicurus and Democritus, which ( along with stoicism ) is considered the foundation of materialist philosophy.

Epicurus (, " ally, comrade "; 341 BC – 270 BC ) was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia — peace and freedom from fear — and aponia — the absence of pain — and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends.

Epicurus ' philosophy is based on the theory that all good and bad derive from the sensations of pleasure and pain.

Epicurus emphasized the senses in his epistemology, and his Principle of Multiple Explanations (" if several theories are consistent with the observed data, retain them all ") is an early contribution to the philosophy of science.

* " Epicurus on Happiness "-A documentary on the philosophy of Epicurus, first 11: 25 of below, Greek subtitles.

Marx's attachment to materialism arose from his doctoral research on the philosophy of Epicurus, as well as his reading of Adam Smith and other writers in classical political economy.

The Ancient Greek phronetic approach to philosophy was pioneered by such philosophers as Socrates and Epicurus.

55 BC ) reflects the mechanistic philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus.

Epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school seems to have been a moderately ascetic community which rejected the political limelight of Athenian philosophy.

The philosophy originated by Epicurus flourished for seven centuries.

Epicurus ' philosophy of the physical world is found in his Letter to Herodotus: Diogenes Laertius 10. 34-83.

This poetic doctrine was handed down by an anonymous Epicurean who summed up Epicurus ' philosophy on happiness in four simple lines:

* Epicurus, Greek philosopher, author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and retirement ( b. 341 BC )

Tsuji was influenced by the philosophy of Epicurus, and many characteristics of Epicureanism show through his lifestyle.