How To Use Epicurus In A Sentence
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Democritus and Epicurus suppose that sight is caused by the insertion of little images into the visive organ, and by the reception of certain rays which return to the eye after meeting the object.
Essays and Miscellanies
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If he had indeed held prudence to be a good, producing felicity, as Epicurus thought, one should have blamed only the absurdity and the paradoxicalness of this opinion; but since prudence of itself is not another thing differing from felicity, but felicity itself, how is it not a contradiction to say, that momentary happiness is equally desirable with eternal, and yet that momentary happiness is nothing worth?
Essays and Miscellanies
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I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great _nebula_ in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
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Certainly that remarkable man was an "epicurean" -- but one, to quote Meredith, "whom Epicurus would have scourged out of his garden"; and the statement made by the critic in question that _The Renaissance_ is the book referred to in _The
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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This fear is one source of perturbation (tarakhê), and is a worse curse than physical pain itself; the absence of such fear is ataraxy, lack of perturbation, and ataraxy, together with freedom from physical pain, is one way of specifying the goal of life, for Epicurus.
Epicurus
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Although the term "epicurean" has come to describe a person devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, Epicurus was wise and moderate and condemned man's destructive passion for political climbing.
Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 30/6/09
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The article on Epicurus, however, is quite valuable, since it contains some original letters of that philosopher, which comprise a summary of the Epicurean doctrines.
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And was circumspectly pyorrhoea into the box, tuscarora my naprosyn medina into an unhearing commute ferryman, tegucigalpa the mac coreidae and homomorphism in a commutative epicurus to our kaput neurobiological.
Rational Review
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So Heidegger agrees with Epicurus's premise three: 'Death, as possibility, gives Dasein nothing to be "actualized", nothing which Dasein, as actual, could itself be.'
Archive 2007-02-01
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What Epicurus said is that a determinist cannot criticize the doctrine of Free Will because he admits his own criticism is itself determined.
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Epicurus, that it is constituted of four qualities, of a fiery quality, of an aerial quality, a pneumatical, and of a fourth quality which hath no name, but it contains the virtue of the sense.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Epicurus arguments are effective only against the view that the world was providentially designed for the benefit of humans.
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It is a poor saying of Epicurus , Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.
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Epicurus, who was known as a hedonist, didn't argue that the pursuit of more and more pleasure was the key to happiness.
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But his interest grew as he worked, and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus.
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None could see this truth clearly but an enthusiast in diet like Epicurus, who, discovering the unexceptionableness of the natural law, proceeded to the work of adaptation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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Epicurus was a voluminous writer, but almost none of his own work survives.
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Epicurus, oddly in contrast here with his modern hedonistic followers, advocates free will and modifies the strict determinism of the atomists, whose physics he accepts, by ascribing to the atoms a clinamen, a faculty of random deviation in their movements.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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There is no tedious sniping at current beliefs (apart from a rather funny bit towards the end about why Jupiter does not hurl thunderbolts; and he has a go also at the beliefs of Heraclitus and Empedocles about elements), just an explanation in detail of the philosophy of Epicurus and how that helps us understand the way the world around us works.
February Books 6) Cat's Cradle: Warhead, by Andrew Cartmel
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This powerful and consistent materialism, somewhat modified from its original form by Epicurus, persisted as the chief competitor to the teleological natural philosophies of the Peripatetics, Stoics and Platonists.
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But these atomical bodies, you will say, are, according to the opinion of Epicurus, infinite in number, and everything which appears to us is composed of them.
Essays and Miscellanies
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While the system of Democritus has the mystique of an incomparable classical creation, the atomic sys - tem of Epicurus, over a century later, bears the mark of an important but epigonic adaptation.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
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The series of Italic philosophers consists of the following: Telanges, Xenophanes, Parmenides, and others down to Epicurus.
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A parallel criticism had been urged by Epicurus who saw no sign of justice or moral - ity in the universe, and therefore rejected any theolog - ical basis for conduct; he regarded perception and feeling as sole criteria for ethics.
JUSTICE
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It is also possible that the Epicureans, whose aim was also ataraxia, learned something from Pyrrho; there are indications of an association between Pyrrho and Nausiphanes, the teacher of Epicurus.
Picnic
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Epicurus had a mundane philosophy yet despite suffering intense pain of the intestines, he enjoyed a blissful last day on earth.
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I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great nebula in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus—“that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily”—although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance.
Imperium
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His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises.
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His heroes are the Stoics - especially Epicurus - and Marx.
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Against both Epicurus and the Stoics, Carneades argued that no deterministic consequences follow from the principle of bivalence (the principle that for any statement P, either P is true or P is false).
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This has been called the Epicurean Hypothesis, because Epicurus, while nominally admitting the existence of God, denied the creation of the world, and ascribed its origin to atoms supposed to have been endued with motion or certain inherent properties and powers, and to have been self-existent and eternal.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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First, it must be the general tendency of atoms to move in straight lines given that the atoms here do not feature the clinamen, or swerve (contrary to the Epicurean tradition, though perhaps as Epicurus himself would say).
Pierre Gassendi
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His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises.
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Where law obtains, Epicurus indicates, it is preferable not to commit crimes, even secret ones, since there will always be anxiety over the possibility of detection, and this will disrupt the tranquillity or ataraxy that is the chief basis of happiness in life (see Principal Beliefs = KD 34 “ 35).
Epicurus
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His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises.
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the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe
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Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
