Epicurus





Epicurus

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Athens, Greece
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Democritus, Pyrrho, Pamphilus


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Epicurus (Greek: Ἐπίκουρος, Epikouros, "upon youth"; Samos, 341 BCE – Athens, 270 BCE; 72 years) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and bad, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or pun...more


Average rating: 4.04 · 704 ratings · 33 reviews · 31 distinct works · Similar authors
The Essential Epicurus
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1993
Lettera sulla felicità
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions
The Epicurus Reader: Select...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Letters and Sayings of Epic...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings — published -300 — 2 editions
Letter to Menoeceus
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings — published -300 — 4 editions
Principal Doctrines
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
Epicurus: Letters, Principa...
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published -271 — 2 editions
Massime e aforismi
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993
Lettere sulla fisica, sul c...
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings3 editions
Επίκουρος: Κείμενα και πηγέ...
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4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Epicurus

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not.”
Epicurus

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