Epicurus |
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Roman marble bust of Epicurus |
Born | February 341 BC
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Died | 270 BC
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Era | Ancient philosophy |
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Region | Western philosophy |
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School | Epicureanism, atomism, materialism, hedonism |
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Main interests | Physics, ethics, epistemology |
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Notable ideas | Pleasure principle, the "moving"/"static" pleasures distinction, ataraxia, aponia, atomic swerve |
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Influenced Seneca the Younger, Hermarchus, Lucretius, Hobbes, Kant, Bentham, Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Onfray, Hadrian, Metrodorus, David Hume, Philodemus, Amafinius, Catius, Michel Foucault, Gassendi, Han Ryner |
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