EPICUREANISM

Epicureanism is a phylosofic system which defends the search of a good, happy and enjoyable life throughout the intelligent and adequate consumption of pleasure and pain, ataraxia (a greek term that means lack of disturbance) and the bonds between friendship and its coreligionist

Where does it come from?

It comes from Epicuro de Samos:
1. Lifespan: 314 B.C-270 B.C

2. As his parents were poor, he lived a simple and modest life

3. He founded his own school called Jardin 4. He kept teaching until his death on 270 B.C because of a problem in his urine (he had stones)

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Ideas

This theory differentiates three types of things: *The ones that are natural and necessary
<Examples: Food, security, etc.

*The ones that are natural but not necessary

<Examples: Sex, jealousy, etc. *The ones that are neither natural nor necessary <Examples: Fame, power, prestige, etc.

Ideas II

Other important statements are:

*Pain and pleasure must be correctly administrated. Sometimes we should refuse pleasure connected to future pain and suffer from pain when it means future pleasure. *There is no point in being afraid of gods (if they exist), as they do not interact with us *Death should not be a reason of fear. There is no manifestation of it when we are alive and when it comes we are not there to feel it

Why is it the best ethical choice?

It is clear and direct

It looks for the well-being of human beings, physically and psychologycally.

It promotes a world with no fears to gods, religions, death, destiny or any abstract power or divinity