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Epicurious launched on August 18, 1995, as part of CondeNet, a subsidiary of Condé Nast that was created to develop content specifically for the Internet. Under the direction of CondeNet president Rochelle Udell and editor-in-chief Joan Feeney, former executive editor of Mademoiselle, Epicurious offered recipes, cooking tips and general information on food, wine, and dining out.
Epicurus was a hedonist, meaning he taught that what is pleasurable is morally good and what is painful is morally evil. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 7 ] He idiosyncratically defined "pleasure" as the absence of suffering [ 63 ] [ 7 ] and taught that all humans should seek to attain the state of ataraxia , meaning "untroubledness", a state in which ...
Epikoros is a Jewish term figuratively meaning "a heretic", cited in the Mishnah, referring to one who does not have a share in the world to come [90] Although rabbinic literature does not make any specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, it is apparent that the term is derived from the philosopher's name, [91] in reference to his ...
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.
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy developed by Epicurus ca. 300 BCE.. Epicurean or epicure may also refer to: . Epicure (gourmet), a person interested in food, sometimes with overtones of excessive refinement
Epicurus was an Ancient Greek philosopher who taught that pleasure was the natural aim of man (as well as of all living things). From the beginning, Epicureans were keen to extol man's pleasure above that of the beasts.
This is a summary of the first four doctrines: [8] 1. A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness
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