Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The manner in which the Epicurean gods exist is still disputed. Some scholars say that Epicureanism believes that the gods exist outside the mind as material objects (the realist position), while others assert that the gods only exist in our minds as ideals (the idealist position).
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
Epicurean or epicure may also refer to: Epicure (gourmet), a person interested in food, sometimes with overtones of excessive refinement; The Epicurean, 1827 novel written by Thomas Moore; Epicurean paradox, an argument about the problem of reconciling evil with an omnipotent deity; Marius the Epicurean, 1885 philosophical novel written by ...
Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s, ˈ f ɛ d r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος; 138 – 70/69 BC [1]) was an Epicurean philosopher. He was the head of the Epicurean school in Athens after the death of Zeno of Sidon around 75 BC, until his own death in 70 or 69 BC.
The Epicurean paradox or riddle of Epicurus or Epicurus' trilemma is a version of the problem of evil. Lactantius attributes this trilemma to Epicurus in De Ira Dei , 13, 20-21: God, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both willing and able.
Theologian David Bentley Hart argues that "natural evil is the result of a world that's fallen into death" and says that "in Christian tradition, you don't just accept 'the world as it is'" but "you take 'the world as it is' as a broken, shadowy remnant of what it should have been."
Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79AD, the secret of a papyrus scroll kept their secrets hidden for centuries. Now one has been deciphered by AI.
Bust of Epicurus.Achieving ataraxia is an important goal in Epicurean philosophy.. In Ancient Greek philosophy, ataraxia (Greek: ἀταραξία, from ἀ-indicating negation or absence and ταραχ-tarach-' to disturb, trouble ' with the abstract noun suffix -ία), generally translated as ' unperturbedness ', ' imperturbability ', ' equanimity ', or ' tranquility ', [1] is a lucid state ...