| The philosophy that's most often associated with the pursuit of pleasure is Epicureanism, named after the Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus. |
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| In opposition to this tradition, Epicurus saw earthly pleasures as the alpha and omega of life. |
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| Epicurus adopted the atomic theory of Democritus, who taught that in a universe of colliding atoms there could be no room for divine activity. |
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| It will be observed that in this respect the early atomists were far more scientific than Epicurus and even than Aristotle. |
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| What Epicurus said is that a determinist cannot criticize the doctrine of Free Will because he admits his own criticism is itself determined. |
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| Against both Epicurus and the Stoics, Carneades argued that no deterministic consequences follow from the principle of bivalence. |
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| Epicurus was a voluminous writer, but almost none of his own work survives. |
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| Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives. |
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| If this were true, that is, if these were the only or even the most important reasons that people fear death, Epicurus might be on firm ground. |
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| Typically, Johnson would have no time for the philosophical materialism or cosmogonical speculation of Epicurus, Lucretius, and their followers. |
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| Around the time of Epicurus, a number of offshoot sects of Cyrenaicism sprung up. |
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| Epicurus arguments are effective only against the view that the world was providentially designed for the benefit of humans. |
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| Epicurus was the founder of the school of philosophy known as Epicureanism. |
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| The article on Epicurus, however, is quite valuable, since it contains some original letters of that philosopher, which comprise a summary of the Epicurean doctrines. |
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| The two chief causes of anxiety were fear of the gods and fear of death, so Epicurus sought to nullify both of these by teaching an evolutionary atomic theory. |
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| In this respect, it is fair to say that just as Epicurus was hardly epicurean, Protestants and Puritans were much less puritanical than is often supposed. |
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| Epicurus was a thoroughgoing physicalist in his philosophy of mind. |
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| The general consensus is that Epicurus believed the fear of death to be wholly irrational and eliminable. |
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| One slight difference is that Democritus's atomism is deterministic whereas the atomism of Lucretius and Epicurus is random. |
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| Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another. |
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| The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. |
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| Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. |
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| In this paper, I argue that there is a much greater degree of subtlety in the moral thought of Thomas Hobbes and a comparison of him and the ancient atomist, Epicurus. |
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| Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries? |
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| Tully, 3 Tusc., cites Epicurus as a chief patron of this tenent. |
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| One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked. |
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