What is Epicurean Philosophy All About?

The key points of Classical Epicurean Philosophy include:

  1.  Nothing Can Be Created From Nothing.
  2.  Nature Has No Gods Over Her.
  3.  Do Not Assign To The Gods Anything That Is Inconsistent With Incorruption And Blessedness
  4.  Death Is Nothing To Us.
  5.  There Is No Necessity To Live Under The Control Of Necessity.
  6.  He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing.
  7.  All Sensations Are "True."
  8. Virtue Is Not  Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation.
  9. Pleasure is The Guide of Life.
  10. By "Pleasure" We Mean All Experience That Is Not Painful
  11. Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time.

For further detail, see our WIki entry on this topic as well as the dsicussion provided in this thread.

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