COMMENTARY: THINKING ABOUT LIFE -- EPICURUS

United Press International | February 19, 2001 | Copyright

United Press International
02-19-2001
Commentary: Thinking about life -- Epicurus

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Going to Google, an all-purpose search-engine on the Internet, and looking up the name "Epicurus," I found 23,400 related Web sites.

The philosopher Epicurus is one of the more important and most misunderstood philosophers who thought hard about how we ought to live.

The unfortunate part of Epicurus' fame though is how his actual life and own philosophy have been forgotten and misunderstood.

A cooking show called by the conjunction Epicurious, for example, associates Epicurus with ...

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