Epicurus

Epicurus
Roman marble bust of Epicurus
Born	February 341 BC Samos
Died	270 BC Athens
Era	Ancient philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Epicureanism, atomism, materialism, hedonism
Main interests	Physics, ethics, epistemology
Notable ideas	Pleasure principle, the "moving"/"static" pleasures distinction, ataraxia, aponia, atomic swerve[1]
Influences Democritus, Pyrrho
Influenced Seneca the Younger, Hermarchus, Lucretius, Hobbes, Kant, Bentham, Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Onfray, Hadrian, Metrodorus, David Hume, Philodemus, Amafinius, Catius, Michel Foucault, Gassendi, Han Ryner

Epicurus^[2] (Samos, 341 BC – Athens, 270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. He started a school of philosophy called Epicureanism.

1. ↑ Bunnin & Yu (2004). The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
2. ↑ Greek Έπίκουρος