| The Epicureans formed more of a closed community than other schools, and promoted a philosophy of a simple, pleasant life lived with friends. |
| The view that emotions are irrational was eloquently defended by the Epicureans and Stoics. |
| Why is Johnson able to discuss the philosophical materialism of the Epicureans here with such dispassion and even, dare one say, good humor? |
| There are some important parallels in the Hellenistic Stoics and Epicureans to certain themes in Zhuangzi. |
| They lift the curtain on a hitherto unknown community of philosophical debate among Epicureans and with other schools. |
| The ancient Greek Stoics seem to me to have done better with these distinctions than the Epicureans, on whom I focus in this paper. |
