Epicurus+Biography

Epicurus was a Greek philosopher and a son of an Athenian colonist. Past records, and tradition show that Epicurus was taught by the systems of Plato, and Democritus. Epicurus was a generous and kind man who found happiness through pleasure. The definition that Epicurus defined philosophy as was the art of making life happy and strictly subordinated metaphysics to ethnics, naming pleasure as the highest, and only good. For Epicurus, pleasure wasn’t the oblivious indulgent but the opposite, serenity, which manifested itself in avoidance of pain. Epicurus also set a code of social conduct, which was honesty, prudence, and justice in dealing with others and themselves, and not because these things were good for themselves, but because they saved individuals from societies vengeance. The element of freedom in his metaphysics supported and paralleled his notation of freedom of will. He denied that the gods had supernatural powers that allowed them to interfere with humanity or nature.

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