Chapter 7: The Hellenistic Era
In Chapter 7 : The Hellenistic Era I learned about two Philosopher’s who were around during the Hellenistic Era ,the period from the death of Alexander in 323 BCE to the end of the Roman Republic 31 BCE in which Epicureanism, Stoicism and Skepticism flourished. The first philosopher I read about was Epicurus, who is considered to be the founder of Epicureanism which is the hedonistic theory that life’s highest aim is happiness that is attained through moderate pleasures and the avoidance of mental disturbances. Epicurus also found Hedonism which is the doctrine that pleasure is the supreme good. However Epicurus hedonism is a somewhat misunderstood. One interesting thing about Epicurus’ is that he believed that the true life of pleasure consists
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Lucretius wrote a poem called “ On the Nature of things“ that paints a picture of human beings as entirely material and transitory, configurations of atoms adrift in a vast material universe of atoms, with no possibility of surviving the annihilation of the body. Epicurus grew up in the Athenian colony of Samos, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. He was about 19 when Aristotle died, and he studied philosophy under followers of Democritus and Plato. Epicurus founded his first philosophical schools in Mytilene and Lampsacus, before moving to Athens around 306 …show more content…
The dead do not exist. “ ( page 167 )
Therefore, death is not bad for the dead.
Therefore death is bad for neither the living nor the dead.
Epicurus adds that if death causes you no pain when you're dead, it’s foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now. Of Lucretius life we know very little, but we do know that he was a poet; he lived during the first century BC, he was devoted to the teachings of Epicurus,and he apparently died before his magnum opus, De Rerum Natura, was completed. Lucretius transmitted Epicurean philosophy and presented a vase view that is astonishing to the modern world today. It may seem as if his “Nature” may seem as
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it though it paints a picture of human beings as entirely material and transitory, configurations of atoms adrift in a vast material of atoms adrift in a vast material universe of atoms, with no possibility of surviving the annihilation of the body. However Lucretius argues that we can grasp the concept that the joys and pleasures of existence and be free of the fears that imprison
Lucretius wrote a poem called “ On the Nature of things“ that paints a picture of human beings as entirely material and transitory, configurations of atoms adrift in a vast material universe of atoms, with no possibility of surviving the annihilation of the body. Epicurus grew up in the Athenian colony of Samos, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. He was about 19 when Aristotle died, and he studied philosophy under followers of Democritus and Plato. Epicurus founded his first philosophical schools in Mytilene and Lampsacus, before moving to Athens around 306 …show more content…
The dead do not exist. “ ( page 167 )
Therefore, death is not bad for the dead.
Therefore death is bad for neither the living nor the dead.
Epicurus adds that if death causes you no pain when you're dead, it’s foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now. Of Lucretius life we know very little, but we do know that he was a poet; he lived during the first century BC, he was devoted to the teachings of Epicurus,and he apparently died before his magnum opus, De Rerum Natura, was completed. Lucretius transmitted Epicurean philosophy and presented a vase view that is astonishing to the modern world today. It may seem as if his “Nature” may seem as
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it though it paints a picture of human beings as entirely material and transitory, configurations of atoms adrift in a vast material of atoms adrift in a vast material universe of atoms, with no possibility of surviving the annihilation of the body. However Lucretius argues that we can grasp the concept that the joys and pleasures of existence and be free of the fears that imprison