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EPICUREAN BACKGROUND

The founder of the Empicurean School, Epicurus (picture), was born in Athens about 342 B.C. and grew up in Samos. At Samos he learned philosophy, and Nausiphenes taught him Democritus' doctrine. In 306 B.C. he moved to Athens, and opened his school in his own garden, which became a center of elegant life for himself and his friends.

Epicurus was a cultured, fashionable man. In his garden filled with statues, he lived happily, teaching and discussing philosophy with his friends. He died in 270 B.C., and in his will bequeathed the house and garden to his disciples.

EPICUREAN THEORY

The Epicureans, like the Stoics  recognized as valid only that knowledge which originates and stops in the senses. All other cognition is only the result of sensations and combinations of many sensations (Sensism).

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