epicurus in English

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( 341–270 bc ) , Greek philosopher, founder of Epicureanism. His physics is based on Democritus' theory of a materialist universe composed of indestructible atoms moving in a void, unregulated by divine providence.

Use "epicurus" in a sentence

1. Epicurus This shit feels good.

2. Without confidence there is no friendship ─ Epicurus.

3. They love Epicurus and his simple pleasures from ancient Greece.

4. Epicurus pursued it by livingin congenial societyeatingdry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.

5. It is a poor saying of Epicurus , Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.

6. The Epicureans were disciples of Epicurus, who believed pleasure to be the highest good in life.

7. In medieval Arabic and Hebrew works Atomism derives from Greek (Democritus, Epicurus) and Indian sources

8. However, it was possible to tell that the library contained the complete works of Epicurus.

9. Does the study of nature contribute to the happiness which is the ultimategoal of Epicurus?

10. The entire system of Epicurus‘ teachings is meant to cultivate a state of abiding pleasure which includes Ataraxia

11. The Epicureans were followers of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who lived from 341 to 270 B.C.E.

12. His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises.

13. But his interest grew as he worked, and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus.

14. Epicurus, who was known as a hedonist, didn't argue that the pursuit of more and more pleasure was the key to happiness.

15. What does Atomism mean? The ancient theory of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, according to which simple, minute, indivisible, and indestruc

16. In the philosophy of Epicurus and his school, Ataraxy is the highest ideal of life, the state of the wise man who has attained inner freedom.

17. Atomism - (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of …

18. Aristippus quotes from YourDictionary: The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

19. ‘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).’ ‘So we may represent the Aristotelian solution as one which rejects the law of Bivalence.’

20. In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (/ ˈ p l iː n ɪ z əm /), commonly stated as "nature Abhors a vacuum", is a postulate attributed to Aristotle, who articulated a belief, later criticized by the atomism of Epicurus and Lucretius, that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material continuum would immediately fill the rarity of an incipient void.