Epicurean
41Patro the Epicurean — Patro ( el. Πάτρων) was an Epicurean philosopher. He lived for some time in Rome, where he became acquainted, amongst others, with Cicero, and with the family of Gaius Memmius. Either now, or subsequently, he also gained the friendship of Atticus …
42Diogenes of Seleucia (Epicurean) — For the Stoic philosopher, also from Seleucia, see Diogenes of Babylon. Diogenes of Seleuceia (2nd century BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher, who has sometimes been confused with Diogenes of Babylon, who was also a native of Seleucia. He lived at …
43Siro the Epicurean — Siro (or Syro) was an Epicurean philosopher who lived c. 50 BC.He was a teacher of Virgil, [Donatus, Vita Vergilii , 79.] and taught at his school in Naples. There are two poems attributed to Virgil in the Appendix Vergiliana, [Virgil, Catalepton …
44Royal Epicurean — Emperor Hadrian …
45Epicureanism — Epicurean ► NOUN 1) a follower of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341 270 BC), who taught that pleasure, particularly mental pleasure, was the highest good. 2) (epicurean) an epicure. ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to Epicurus or his ideas. 2)… …
46Epicure — , EPICUREAN, EPICURISM An epicure is a person who cultivates refined tastes, especially in food and wine; epicurean pertains to good eating and drinking. These words derive from Epicurus (c. 341 c.270 B.C.), who was probably born on the… …
47Epicureanism — is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus ( c . 341 ndash; c . 270 BC), founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on… …
48Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… …
49Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …
50Epicureanism — /ep i kyoo ree euh niz euhm, kyoor ee /, n. 1. the philosophical system or doctrine of Epicurus, holding that the external world is a series of fortuitous combinations of atoms and that the highest good is pleasure, interpreted as freedom from… …
