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Article: Epicurus
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Epicurus
Should we fear death? A very famous argument of why we should not was offered some 2,300 years ago by the philosopher Epicurus. Epicurus (341
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271 b.c.e.) authored around 300 scrolls, but only three letters and a few fragments have survived, being passed down in a biography by Diogenes Laertius four centuries after Epicurus's death. Born of Athenian parents and raised on the island colony of Samos, Epicurus was introduced to philosophy as a teenager when he encountered followers of Plato and Democritus. Democritus's philosophy was to have a lasting effect on Epicurus's mature thinking. In 306 b.c.e., Epicurus began his own school in an area known as the "Garden." The ...
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Epicurus.(Reference Source)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;
January 1, 1993 ;
700+ words
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