Philosophy+of+Epicurus
51Berkeley, George — George Berkeley David Berman BACKGROUND AND EARLY WORK George Berkeley was born on 12 March 1685 in Co. Kilkenny, where he spent his early years. His father was from England, his mother (very probably) was born in Ireland.1 After attending… …
52Polyaenus of Lampsacus — (in Greek Πoλύαινoς Λαμψακηνός; ca. 340 ndash;278 BC), son of Athenodorus, was an ancient Greek mathematician and a friend of Epicurus. His friendship with Epicurus started after the latter s escape from Mytilene in 307 or 306 BC when he opened a …
53Evil — • In a large sense, described as the sum of the opposition, which experience shows to exist in the universe, to the desires and needs of individuals; whence arises, among humans beings at least, the sufferings in which life abounds Catholic… …
54Historical materialism — Part of a series on Marxism …
55Ep|i|cu|re|an — «EHP uh kyu REE uhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of or like an epicure; fond of pleasure and luxury: »epicurean tastes. 2. fit for an epicure: »an epicurean banquet. –n. a person who is fond of pleasure and luxury; epicure. SYNONYM(S): sybarite.… …
56ep|i|cu|re|an — «EHP uh kyu REE uhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of or like an epicure; fond of pleasure and luxury: »epicurean tastes. 2. fit for an epicure: »an epicurean banquet. –n. a person who is fond of pleasure and luxury; epicure. SYNONYM(S): sybarite.… …
57Renaissance 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… …
58Pierre Gassendi — Pierre Gassendi † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pierre Gassendi (GASSENDY, GASSEND.) A French philosopher and scientist; b. at Champtercier, a country place near Digne in Provence, 22 January, 1592 (tombstone says IX cal. Feb., i.e. 24… …
59LUCRETIUS, TITUS CARUS — a Roman poet of whose personal history nothing is known, only that he was the author of a poem entitled De Rerum Naturâ, a philosophic, didactic composition in six books, in which he expounds the atomic theory of Leucippus, and the philosophy… …
60Epicureanism — [ep΄ikyoor′ē əniz΄əm] n. 1. the philosophy of Epicurus or his school 2. adherence to or practice of this philosophy 3. [e ] EPICURISM …
