Tradition
Epicureanism
Overview
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
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Under the influence of such ideas, perhaps also deriving from the traditions of their own or of other nations scraps of medicine and astronomy, men came to the observation of nature. The Greek philosopher looked at the blue circle of the heavens and it flashed upon him that all things were one; the tumult of sense abated, and the mind found repose in the thought which former generations had been striving to realize…
Plato, Timaeus
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The whole concrete universal is now Mind; and the whole concrete individual, Nature. In Stoicism pure Thought develops into a totality; if we make the other side from Mind—natural being or feeling—into a totality, Epicureanism is the result. Each determination is formed into a totality of thought, and, in accordance with the simple mode which characterizes this sphere, these principles seem to be for themselves and…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Epicureanism is; names Epicureanism twice.
Epicurus the son of Neocles, the Athenian, his philosophical sentiments being the same with those of Democritus, affirms that the principles of all being are bodies which are only perceptible by reason; they admit not of a vacuity, nor of any original, but being of a self-existence are eternal and incorruptible; they are not liable to any diminution, they are indestructible, nor is it possible for them to receive…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
States what Epicureanism is; the author is tied to Epicureanism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Epicureanism
- Epicurus
- Carneades
- Anaximander
- Galen
- John of Salisbury
- Lucian
- Michel Onfray
- Pierre Gassendi
- Parmenides
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Plutarch
- Menippus
- Socrates
- Philodemus
- Baruch Spinoza
- Lucretius
- Aristocles of Messene
- Michel de Montaigne
- Jeremy Bentham
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Speusippus
- Yang Zhu
- Diogenes of Babylon
- Pierre Hadot
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Empiricism
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Telos
- Francis Bacon
- Athens
- Philosophical realism
- Lampsacus
- Pyrrhonism
- Hedonism
- Herodotus
- Philosophy
- Atheism
- Idealism
- Julius Caesar
- Jainism
- Republic (Plato)
- Justice
- Lucian
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Arcesilaus
- David Sedley
- Immortality
- Sextus Empiricus
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Antioch
- Colophon (city)
- Demeter
- Eunuch
- Herculaneum
- Immortality
- Julius Caesar
- Lesbos
- Lycia
- Michel Onfray
- Mishnah
- Mytilene
- Poggio Bracciolini
- Rabbinic literature
- Rhodes
- Samos
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Villa of the Papyri
- World to come
- A. A. Long
- Frances Wright
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger)
- Hermann Usener
- Teos