Epicureanism
The catalogue includes 2 thinkers in Epicureanism.
How these pages are made
Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.
Thinkers in this tradition
- Epicurus342 BC – 270 BC
Epicurus (c. 342–270 BCE) was a Greek philosopher who founded his school in an Athenian garden that admitted women and slaves, a radical gesture for his time. He taught that pleasure — understood as freedom from pain…
- Lucretius94 BC – 55 BC
Lucretius (c. 94–55 BCE) was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher, author of the six-book poem On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura). In it he explained the world as atoms moving in the void, argued that the soul…