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1. Epicurus: an
Introduction

2. Why Epicurus?
- He is far different from his
contemporaries

3. Why Epicurus?
- His school is very
practical, a house with a
kitchen-garden, thus
giving a name- “Ho
Kepos” or the Garden

4. Why Epicurus?
- He addresses his students
and colleagues as
“friends” and “intimates”

5. Why Epicurus?
- Epicureanism is not just a
philosophy but way of life

6. Why Epicurus?
- He established a support
system where wealthier
friends give financial
support to others.

7. Why Epicurus?
- He practice Epicurean
dictum, lathe biosas, “Live
your life without
attracting attention,” or
more, “Live unseen”

8. Why Epicurus?
- His school adheres to the
life of simple community,
withdrawal from politics,
and quiet study of the
master’s world system.

9. Epicurus Time:
- Hellenestic Period (323-31 BCE)
- -The time when the Greek
ruled the world

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11. His Birth:
- -341 BCE
- -island of Samos
- -a Citizen of
Athens

12. His Family:
- -Parents: Neocles &
Chaerestrata
- -Emigrated to Samos in
352 BCE

13. Compulsory Military Training
- -At age 18 he left Samos to fulfill his
compulsory two-year military
service as an ephebe, or citizen
youth

14. His Teachers:
- -Pamphilus
Platonist
- -Nausiphanes of Teos
- Taught Epicurus the
atomism of Democritus

15. His School:
-Ho Kepos or The Garden

16. His School:
-Ho Kepos or The Garden
-accepts men and women
-slave and free
-bound by ties of amity
-addressed each other as
“friends and “intimates”

17. His School:
-Ho Kepos or The Garden
-the wealthier friends called
upon to give financial
support

18. His School:
-Ho Kepos or The Garden
-live a life of simple
community
-withdrawal from politics
-quiet study of the master’s
world system

19. Epicurean Dictum
-lathe biosas, “Live your life
without attracting
attention,” or more literally,
“Live unseen”.

20. His Philosophy
-Pragmatic Philosopher
pragmatic philosophers solve
problems in a sensible way that
suits the conditions that really
exist now, rather than obeying
fixed theories, ideas, or rules.

21. His Philosophy
-Rejected fatalism & the gods
myth
-Human conduct must be
motivated by correct reasoning
not by fear
-Rejected absolutes

22. His Writings
-Epistle
Letter to Herodutus
Letter to Pythocles
Letter to Menoeceus
-Principal Doctrines
-Vatican sayings
-Fragments

23. His Disciples
-Idomeneus
-Leonteus and his wife Themista
-Colotes
-Pythocles
-Metrodorus

24. His Influence
-Tertullian
-Erasmus
-Thomas Hobbes
-John Locke
-Sir William Temple

25. His Death
-Died 271 BCE
-at Seventy years old
-attributed death to Stone in the
Bladder
he speaks of pain caused by
“strangury and dysentery”

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