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Epicureanism

noun
1.
A doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers.





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"Epicureanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... his most oracular mood, in that fine manifesto of a lofty Epicureanism which is known as the Conclusion to the Renaissance essays, that to form habits is failure in life. The difficulty in uttering oracles is that one is obliged for the sake of being forcible to reduce a statement to its simplest terms; and when one does that, there ...
— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson


Words linked to "Epicureanism" :   doctrine, ism, philosophy, school of thought, philosophical system


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