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The philosophy of pleasure that mostly recommends bread, friends, and not panicking about death.
means A philosophy holding that the good life comes from simple pleasures and freedom from pain and fear, especially the fear of death and the gods.
from Named after Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who taught in Athens around the late 4th century BCE, gathering students in a garden to discuss how to live well. Ironically, 'epicurean' came to mean a lover of fine food and luxury in popular usage — a drift from Epicurus's actual teaching, which prized modest pleasures like bread and friendship over indulgence, and treated tranquility of mind as the real goal.
- actual goal
- ataraxia, not orgies, despite the brand damage
- founder's diet
- mainly bread, water, occasional cheese
- biggest fear killed
- death, which he argued you never experience
- modern meaning
- hijacked by foodies who skipped the homework