Epicurean+philosophy
61Creutz, Gustav Philip, Greve — ▪ Swedish poet born May 1, 1731, Anjala, Swedish Finland [now in Finland] died October 30, 1785, Stockholm, Sweden Swedish poet whose light and graceful verse expressed the prevailing Rococo spirit and Epicurean philosophy of his time.… …
62МЕТРОДОР ИЗ ЛАМПСАКА — I. МЕТРОДОР ИЗ ЛАМПСАКА (Μητρόδωρος ὁ Λαμψακηνός) (2 я пол. 5 в. до н. э.), ученик Анаксагора, о котором известно, что вслед за учителем он занимался толкованием поэм Гомера. Упоминание об авторитете М. экзегета имеется у Платона (Plat.… …
63ep|i|cure — «EHP uh kyur», noun. 1. a) a person who enjoys eating and drinking and who is very particular in choosing fine foods, wines, and other things to eat and drink; gourmet: »Serenely full, the epicure would say Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today …
64Epicure — , EPICUREAN, EPICURISM An epicure is a person who cultivates refined tastes, especially in food and wine; epicurean pertains to good eating and drinking. These words derive from Epicurus (c. 341 c.270 B.C.), who was probably born on the… …
65Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …
66Otium — Otium, a Latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors. It sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person s retirement… …
67Epicureanism — • In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
68Pierre Gassendi — (January 22, 1592 ndash; October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer/astrologer [http://www.skepticreport.com/predictions/newton.htm] , and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with …
69Problem of evil — Part of a series on God General conceptions …
70Renaissance humanism — was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the 14th century. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of many Latin and Greek texts. Initially, a humanist was simply a… …
