Epicurus established two schools, one being in Lampascus and another one in Athens. It is the second school that made him famous, as he used it to propagate his Epicurean philosophy. The school was known asThe Gardenrelative to the place where they met for discussions. Members of his school...
On that day in 1787, the 81-year-oldBenjamin Franklin, famously known as a deist, proposed that the convention open its sessions with prayer. Deists, who believe God created the universe but remains apart from it, aren't supposed to believe in prayer or that God intervenes in history. Wh...
Democritus (~460–~370 BC) and the Epicureans had the important idea (that also arose independently in other cultures) that everything might be made of large numbers of a few types of tiny discrete atoms. They imagined these atoms moving around in the “void” of spa...
Such an argument is not dependent upon the number of those who identified themselves with philosophical schools that were hostile to supernaturalism, such as the Epicureans, Cynics, and Sceptics, something that, relative to the population as a whole, is unlikely to have been large.[222] We ...
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