Epicureanism Definition

ĕpĭ-kyo͝o-rēə-nĭzəm, -kyo͝orē-
noun
A philosophy advanced by Epicurus that considered happiness, or the avoidance of pain and emotional disturbance, to be the highest good and that advocated the pursuit of pleasures that can be enjoyed in moderation.
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The philosophy of Epicurus or his school.
Webster's New World
Adherence to or practice of this philosophy.
Webster's New World
Devotion to a life of pleasure and luxury.
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Epicurism.

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Epicureanism Sentence Examples

  • Epicureanism need not detain us.

  • Epicureanism thought that " the wise man fears not death, before which most men tremble; for, if we are, it is not; if it is, we are not."

  • Human survival is taught, but not ultimate immortality; and, as against Epicureanism, Stoicism on the whole tends to deny free will.

  • His Histoire des causes premieres was among the first attempts at a history of philosophy, and in his work on Epicurus, following on Gassendi, he defended Epicureanism against the general attacks made against it.

  • Wolff's list is of some historical importance - atheism, deism (a God without care for men) and naturalism (denial of supernatural revelation); anthropomorphism (assigning a human body to God); materialism, and idealism (non-existence of matter); paganism (polytheism); Manichaeism, Spinozism, Epicureanism.

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