Epicureanism

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Epicureanism is a school of philosophy founded upon the teachings of its founder Epicurus It was known, to Rome, from the mid 2nd Century B.C. as a philosophical school and a way of life. It was immenesely popular in Italy during the 1st Century B.C. but by the 2nd Century A.D Stoicism was paramount.

pleasure was the telos of epicureanism

this was achieved by rational calculus συμμετρησισ, a selection (αιρεσισ) an aversions (φυγη)are to be evaluated by the pleasure it gives (129),

ataraxia αταραζια

live unobtrusively λαθε βιωσας

Prominent Roman Epicureans:

• Titus Lucretius Carus

Greek teachers in Italy:

Philodemus

Siro

M. Pompilius Andronicus

Epicurean vocabulary:

hortulus

contubernium

contubernales

quies

voluptas

External links

• Epicurus & Epicurean Philosophy

Roskam p. 35,39