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Epicurus

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Noun

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Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

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Epicurus

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noun
341–270 bc, Greek philosopher, who held that the highest good is pleasure and that the world is a series of fortuitous combinations of atoms

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Epicurus

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341-270 b.c.; Gr. philosopher: founder of the Epicurean school, which held that the goal of man should be a life characterized by serenity of mind and the enjoyment of moderate pleasure

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Epicurus

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Greek philosopher who founded his influential school of Epicureanism in Athens (c. 306) and a utopian community called "The Garden."

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