21. PsyBlog: Hedonist Philosopher Epicurus Was Right About Happiness (Mostly) One philosopher who dispensed clear advice about how to live a happy life was epicurus, a Greek who lived in the third century B.C.. http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/12/hedonist-philosopher-epicurus-was-right.php

PsyBlog Home About Contact Advertise Max: 1 email per day 10 Weirdest Psychology Studies Guide to Psychology Blogs Nonverbal Behaviour Psychology of Relationships ... Social Psychology Featured Sites Rehab Centers Mesothelioma UK Counselling Services Healthy Diets ... Online Anger Management Classes Popular articles Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance 10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life Empathy Causes Facial Similarity Between Couples to Increase Over Time ... Will Solving The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness Unweave the Rainbow? Search PsyBlog archives January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 May 2004 ... January 2008 Hedonist Philosopher Epicurus Was Right About Happiness (Mostly) [Image credit: mharrsch "If a little is not enough for you, nothing is." Epicurus Philosophers down the ages have been keen to tell the rest of us how to live and how to be happy. Certainly their advice comes to us with the lustre of intellectual achievement; it is both high-brow and high-powered, but can we understand any of it and how does it fare against modern psychological research? One philosopher who dispensed clear advice about how to live a happy life was Epicurus, a Greek who lived in the third century B.C.. In a new article in the Journal of Happiness Studies, Bergsma, Poot and Liefbroer (in press) explain Epicurus' guide to the good life and then compare it with some of the huge body of work in psychology looking at satisfaction with life.

22. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) epicurus (341270 BC). epicurus. Greek philosopher who was born on the Ionian island of Samos. Eventually, he moved to Athens where he opened a school of http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/E/Epicurus.html

PHILOSOPHY A B C ... CONTACT entire Web this site Epicurus (341-270 BC Greek philosopher who was born on the Ionian island of Samos. Eventually, he moved to Athens where he opened a school of philosophy in a garden that he had bought and laid out for the purpose. He developed further the doctrine of atomism , as expounded by Leucippus and Democritus , including the idea that life exists elsewhere in the universe. In his Letter to Herodotus , he writes: [T]here are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours ... we must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world... Everything, he believed, could be explained in terms of natural causes. As for the gods, he taught that they existed only in the spaces between worlds, having no interest at all in human affairs. Related entries Lucretius ancient philosophy, related to the possibility of extraterrestrial life Greek astronomy Related category PHILOSOPHY Also on this site: BACK TO TOP var site="s13space1234"

23. EpistemeLinks: Website Results For Philosopher Epicurus General website search results for epicurus including brief biographies, link resources, and more. Provided by EpistemeLinks. http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Epic

24. Societal And Economic Effects On Quality Of Life And Well-being (EPICURUS) epicurus Partners. Centre for European Labour Market Research, Aberdeen, UK (coordinating partner) Contact epicurus by email epicurus@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/epicurus/

List of Partners Project Description Links Dissemination ... Partners Only Area Societal and economic effects on quality of life and well-being: preference identification and priority setting in response to changes in labour market status A project supported by the European Commission through the Fifth Framework Programme "Improving Human Potential" (contract number: HPSE-CT-2002-00143). "We must meditate on what brings happiness, since if we have that, we have everything. And if we have not, all our energies are directed at gaining it." Epicurus (Letter to Menoeceus: The Happy Life) EPICURUS Partners Centre for European Labour Market Research, Aberdeen, UK (co-ordinating partner) Centre for Labour Market and Social Research, Aarhus, Denmark RIFE, Finland Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, France Laboratorio de Economia Experimental, Spain Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies of the University of Amsterdam, NL University of Macedonia, Greece Contact EPICURUS by email: epicurus@abdn.ac.uk Last Modified: Friday, 21-Apr-2006 16:40:30 BST Comments on this page to: d.mccausland@abdn.ac.uk

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26. Letter To Menoeceus / By Epicurus; Translated By Robert Drew Hicks For offline reading, the complete set of pages is available for download from http//etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/menoeceus/menoeceus.zip http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/menoeceus/

Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus Translated by Robert Drew Hicks eBooks@Adelaide This web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide Rendered into HTML by Steve Thomas Last updated Fri Apr 13 12:16:41 2007. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ You are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, and to make derivative works under the following conditions: you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the licensor; you may not use this work for commercial purposes; if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the licensor. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. For offline reading, the complete set of pages is available for download from http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/menoeceus/menoeceus.zip

27. Philosophy Of Religion .info - Biographies - Historic Figures - Epicurus A brief biography of the ancient Greek philosopher epicurus, and a summary of his epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher, born on the island Samos. http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/epicurus.html

About the Site Author Information Email Arguments for the Existence of God ... Links You are here: Philosophy of Religion Biographies Historic Figures > Epicurus Philosophy of Religion Biographies Historic Figures St Anselm of Canterbury ... Bertrand Russell Biographies: Historic Figures: Epicurus (circa 341-270 BC) Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher, born on the island Samos. He was the founder of the Garden, a school of philosophy in Athens, but his views were far more widely dispersed than that, as the existence of Epicurean communities as far off as Syria demonstrates. Though he wrote much, little of Epicurus’ works survives; Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers preserves a number of his letters and sayings, and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura is believed to accurately represent his views, but there is little else remaining beyond that. Epicureanism was often regarded badly in antiquity. Its egalitarianism, with all being treated equally irrespective of wealth, sex, or status, was in part responsible for this. It was also, however, sharply inconsistent with the Christianity that came to be dominant in the Roman empire; though Epicureanism afforded a role to gods, they were not thought to be involved in the universe in any way, and it rejected outright the idea of an afterlife. A very early statement of the problem of evil is also attributed to Epicurus.

28. Epicurus Quotes 31 quotes and quotations by epicurus. epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/epicurus.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Epicurus Quotes Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Year of Birth: 341 BC Year of Death: 271 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Epicurus Related Authors: Plato Aristotle Epictetus Socrates ... Diogenes A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. Epicurus If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

29. Epicurus :: Intro An important topic of research in the epicurus program is to develop a computationalnetwork framework extending KPNs that addresses these issues. http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/~epicurus/

Intro Intro Epicurus Projects Publications ... Members The Epicurus program Ambient Intelligence is the vision that technology will become invisible, embedded in our natural surroundings, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple and effortless interactions, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users and context and autonomously acting. High quality information and content must be available to any user, anywhere, at any time, and on any device. A typical next-generation embedded multi-media system operating in such an environment is a mobile device that combines high-quality real-time media processing with acceptable usage times between recharges (e.g., mobile phones, gaming devices, pda's). These systems increasingly need high-performance, low-energy compute platforms. The solution is found in multi-processor systems integrating many average-speed and energy-efficient processing elements on a single chip. An important topic of research in the Epicurus program is to develop a computational-network framework extending KPNs that addresses these issues. We aim at both a sound theoretical framework and a programming environment. Important is the study of analysis techniques that provide insight in concurrency-, timing-, and energy-related properties at the specification level without fully implementing an application.

30. The Legacy Of Epicurus The Legacy of epicurus Did epicurus liberate man from the fear of God and from the fear of death? Was his theory correct? http://www.allaboutworldview.org/the-legacy-of-epicurus.htm

The Legacy of Epicurus You are here: Worldview The Legacy of Epicurus The Legacy of Epicurus The most interesting aspect of your moral philosophy of happiness sans suffering is its familiarity. I detect an implied hedonism in many of your comments. I don’t sense that you would agree with the Cyrenaics, who sought personal pleasure above all, especially sensual pleasures. They believed no benefit could be gained from logic or mental cogitation. The only knowable reality in Cyrenaicism was empirically recognized via the five senses. The Roman emperors Tiberius and Caligula sought this reality to an extreme. Epicureans still sought pleasure, but they recognized that the uncontrolled pursuit of pleasure often led to a decrease in pleasure later in life. They made it their goal to pursue pleasure in moderation. They also recognized that pleasure could be attained by gaining knowledge, a form of pleasure that the Cyrenaics rejected. As a teenager Epicurus read frequently the works of Democritus, a pre-Socratic philosopher and scientist who, along with Leucippus, constructed a theory of nature strikingly similar to that of early twentieth-century science. In the 3rd and 4th centuries BC, Democritus and Leucippus described nature as composed of atoms, the smallest indivisible unit of matter. They considered all of nature to be composed of either atoms or vacuous space. Since these fundamental components of nature existed eternally, no need existed to include a concept of God. Democritus was a strict materialist, whose philosophy, developed from his scientific theories, parallels the philosophical views of most scientists today.

31. Epicurus Collection of essays by epicurus. Biography of epicurus (Off Site) by Diogenes Laertius (c. 100 A.D.). Letter to Menoecius (Off Site) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/epicurus/

Library Historical Documents : Epicurus Epicurus [c. 341 - 271 BCE ] Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy (Off Site) [ Index ] Biography of Epicurus (Off Site) by Diogenes Laertius (c. 100 A.D.) Letter to Menoecius (Off Site) Letter to Herodotus (Off Site) Letter to Pythocles (Off Site) Letter to Idomeneus (Off Site) The Last Will and Testament of Epicurus (Off Site) Principal Doctrines (Off Site) Vatican Sayings (Off Site) e-mail the URL of this page Present Last updated: Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 19:08:11 CDT

32. The Happiness Project: This Saturday: A Happiness Quotation From Epicurus. This Saturday a happiness quotation from epicurus. epicurus2 “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/01/this-saturday-2.html

The Happiness Project I'm working on a book, THE HAPPINESS PROJECTa memoir about the year I spent test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah. THE HAPPINESS PROJECT will gather these rules for living and report on what works and what doesn’t. On this daily blog, I recount some of my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of being happier. THE HAPPINESS PROJECT will hit the shelves in late 2009 (HarperCollins). About Subscribe in a reader My Twelve Commandments 1. Be Gretchen. 2. Let it go. 3. Act as I would feel. 4. Do it now. 5. Be polite and be fair. 6. Enjoy the process. 7. Spend out. 8. Identify the problem. 9. Lighten up. 10. Do what ought to be done. 11. No calculation. 12. There is only love. If you'd like a copy of my resolutions chart Just drop me an email. The first part is grubin (then that familiar symbol). The second part is gretchenrubin (then a period, then a com). Sorry to be convolutedbecause of spam. Every Wednesday is Tip Day.

33. Ethical Writings Of Epicurus Translated By Sanderson Beck epicurus was born in 340 BC and was raised at Samos by his schoolmaster father. As an Athenian citizen he reported for two years of military service when he http://san.beck.org/Epicurus.html

BECK index Ethical Writings of Epicurus translated by Sanderson Beck Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus Authoritative Doctrines of Epicurus Pronouncements of Epicurus Quotations of Epicurus Epicurus was born in 340 BC and was raised at Samos by his schoolmaster father. As an Athenian citizen he reported for two years of military service when he was eighteen. He taught philosophy in Asia Minor before buying a home and the Garden at Athens, where he taught from 306 BC until his death in 270 BC. According to the biography by Diogenes Laertius, Epicurus wrote extensively, but only a few letters and short sayings remain. His atomistic philosophy was later described in the poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius. The ethical teachings of Epicurus are summarized in his Letter to Monoeceus and his forty Authoritative Doctrines . A 14th-century manuscript discovered in 1888 from the Vatican library included many more sayings by Epicurus and is entitled Pronouncements of Epicurus . Other "fragments" are Quotations of Epicurus from other classical writers. The quote in the

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35. Ziniewicz On Epicurus (epicurus was physically ill for much of his life.) Additional quotations from epicurus Vatican Sayings. See XIV, XXIII, XXV, XXXI, XXXIV, XLI, XLV, http://www.fred.net/tzaka/epicurus.html

SHADOWS EPICURUS: PHILOSOPHY AS PAIN AVOIDANCE by Gordon L. Ziniewicz 1. The purpose of philosophy is not to pursue knowledge for its own sake, but to bring about peace of mind and body. 2. Happiness is peace of mind and body. It is tranquillity or undisturbedness (ataraxia), the quiet of a mind free from fear and a body content with natural satisfactions. 3. The soul and the body are composed of indivisible small particles called atoms. All that exists is either atoms, bodies compounded of atoms, or void (pure empty space within which atoms move). The human body is composed of coarser atoms that tend to hold together. The human soul is composed of very fine and smooth atoms that are dispersed, if they are not held in by the body. 4. The universe is eternal: atoms are eternal and indestructible and infinite in number. The void is infinite in extent (the void has no limits). 5. Atoms are constantly moving through the universe forming compounds. They generally move in a straight line, but they sometimes swerve, bumping into other atoms, vibrating back and forth and forming compounds. We cannot see atoms because they are very small and move at atomic speed. We can see things made of atoms because they organize into compounds large enough to see.

36. Epicurus - Wikiquote epicurus (341 BC 270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas gave rise to systems of thought known as Epicureanism. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Epicurus

Epicurus From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas gave rise to systems of thought known as Epicureanism Contents Sourced Sovereign Maxims Unsourced External links ... edit Sourced Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy. From the esplanade wall at Oenoanda Turkey . As written by Diogenes of Oenoanda Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure. The " Tetrapharmakos " [τετραφάρμακος], or "The four-part cure" of Epicurus, from the " Herculaneum Papyrus", 1005, 4.9-14 of Philodemus , as translated in The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (1994) edited by D. S. Hutchinson, p. vi

37. Epicurus. Greek Philosophers On Cosmology And Myth epicurus. The Greek philosopher, his thoughts on cosmology, cosmogony, and myth by Stefan Stenudd, Swedish author and Historian of Ideas. http://www.stenudd.com/myth/greek/epicurus.htm

STENUDD.COM About the writer ANCIENT GREECE Introduction Thales Anaximander Anaximenes ... Aristotle's Poetics Books by Stefan Stenudd: COSMOS OF THE ANCIENTS The Greek philosophers' theories about the gods, the myths, and cosmology. More about the book here. MURDER Thoughts on life, death, and the meaning of it all - by Stefan Stenudd. More about the book here. ALL'S END A science fiction novel by Stefan Stenudd, about the quest for a perfect world. More about the book here. AIKIDO The book about aikido principles and basic concepts, the ideas and thoughts behind it, by Stefan Stenudd. More about the book here. AIKIBATTO The book More about the book here. More on this website: Aikido Aikibatto sword exercises Myth and Cosmology Aristotle and his Poetics ... Astrology and horoscopes Stefan Stenudd Cosmos of the Ancients The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology Epicurus picurus (341-270 BC) had two principal teachers – the Platonist Pamphilus in his teens, and Nausiphanes of Teos, who introduced him to the atomism of Democritus, in his twenties – but he distanced them firmly, calling the latter a "scoundrel", to form his own school of thought, which was extraordinary in allowing both sexes as students. The principal source to his life and theories is Diogenes Laertius, who wrote appreciatively and extensively about him in

38. Epicurus Quotes epicurus quotes,epicurus, author, authors, writer, writers, people, famous people. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/epicurus/

39. BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Greatest Philosopher - Epicurus In Our Time s Greatest Philospher vote with epicurus biography. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_epicurus.shtm

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... Radio 4 PROGRAMME FINDER: A-Z Directory Listen Again Download/Podcast What's On Listings ... Presenters PROGRAMME GENRES: Arts and Drama Science History Factual TOP PROGRAMMES THIS WEEK: The Archers Today Programme Woman's Hour In Our Time ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! IN OUR TIME'S GREATEST PHILOSOPHER VOTE MISSED A PROGRAMME? Go to the Listen Again page GREATEST PHILOSOPHER Epicurus (c. 341 BC–270 BC) advocated by David Sedley Listen to David Sedley say why you should vote for Epicurus 'It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly.' Epicurus was born on the Greek island of Samos and trained in the military in Athens before becoming a teacher in Mytilene and Lampsacus. He returned to Athens in 305 BC where he founded a school of philosophy that bears his name. Epicurus revived physical atomism, a theory that the world was formed by the concourse of atoms, first devised by Leucippus (c5th BC) and Democritus (c. 460-c. 362 BC). Although most of his writings are lost, his work is known through fragments of writings by Diogenes Laërtius and particularly through the long poem

40. Philosophy- Squashed Epicurus - Sovran Maxims (Principal Doctrines) - Condensed epicurus was born in 341BC on the island of Samos. He studied philosophy under the successors of Democritus and Plato, and eventually founded his own school http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/epicurus.htm

Glyn Hughes' Squashed Philosophers The Condensed Edition of Epicurus' Sovran Maxims (Principal Doctrines) ... in 1,600 words " No pleasure is a bad thing in itself " INTRODUCTION to Epicurus's Sovran Maxims Epicurus was born in 341BC on the island of Samos. He studied philosophy under the successors of Democritus and Plato, and eventually founded his own school and community at the 'garden' in Athens. Epicureanism, a philosophy of refined and calculating pleasure-seeking (in contrast to the rival creed of Stoicism with its watchword of 'duty'), flourished for centuries, spawning colonies and followers throughout Europe, only to fade with the coming of Christianity. THE VERY SQUASHED VERSION Death is nothing to us; for that which has no sensation is nothing to us. The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. No pleasure is a bad thing in itself, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail disturbances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.

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