Epicureans

To create the mouthwatering meals savoured by carefree epicureans, restaurateurs, chefs and cleaners have to put in back-breaking 12-hour shifts in sweltering kitchens.

These were good times for Edo’s epicureans.

But the Epicureans did have an innovative theory of justice as a social contract.

Epicureans add to these the focusing of thought into an impression.

Epicureans observed that indiscriminate indulgence sometimes resulted in negative consequences.

Galen's education had exposed him to the four major schools of thought (Platonists, Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans), with teachers from the Rationalist sect and from the Empiricist sect.

He was not a Stoic, but like them he looked back to the Socratics and was constantly engaged in arguing against atomists such as the Epicureans.

The Epicureans also used the atomist theories of Democritus and Leucippus to assert that man has free will.

They have fled from Judaism that they may become Epicureans.

This theory places Anaximander close to the Atomists and the Epicureans who, more than a century later, also claimed that an infinity of worlds appeared and disappeared.

To the Epicureans, virtue in itself had no value and was beneficial only when it served as a means to gain happiness.