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Epicure
Definition
Greek philosopher, born on the island of Samos in 341 before J.C.
Description
It settles in Athens, which is then the cultural hearth of Greece. Epicure melts a school which one calls the garden, where it lives in community with his disciples. The base of its doctrines is a physics nuclear physicist: the universe is made up only of matter, itself made of atoms and vacuum. No need for the gods to explain the origin of the universe. The adjective epicurean, which designates a jovial fellow, somebody who benefits from all the pleasures of the life, gives a false idea of the morals of Epicure, such as it is exposed in the Letter with Ménécée. Far from being the libertine whom one believes, Epicure advises the training of the deprivation. It is in this condition, indeed, that the wise one will be accustomed to be satisfied with little and to taste each amusement of the existence.
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Anwar Hossain
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