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Achieving the happy life. (excerpt from Epicurus' 'Letter to Monoeceus')
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June 22, 1998
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Epicurus
Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.) began his study of philosophy on Samos, the island of his birth, with the Platonist Pamphilus. But it was in Colophon that the Epicurean movement was born. There Epicurus learned about the atomism of Democritus and "undisturbedness" as a goal of life from Nausiphanes. His work was fully developed in the Garden - the school he established in his home in Athens in 306.
Epicurus believed that the only life is the one here on earth. We gain knowledge through our senses. The universe, including the soul of man, is physical. And human ...
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