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epicureanisms | EPICUREANISM, a Greek philosophy holding that freedom from pain is the highest good |
epicureanism | a Greek philosophy holding that freedom from pain is the highest good |
epicureanism | An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods |