The Greek triskelion is an ancient symbol. Its name comes from the Greek word Triskeles, meaning three legs. It dates back to the Neolithic era and is found at the entrance of Newgrange, Ireland. It has been used in the Celtic culture since 500 BC. It is also an ancient symbol of Sic...
Epicurus was no atheist, but he believed that the gods took no interest in the affairs of this world, and lived a life of their own in uninterrupted tranquillity. For this reason, belief in divine providence was superstition, and religious rituals were worthless at best. 伊壁鸠鲁不是无神论者,...
But the actual Aeolic word pais was more often used to indicate a slave or any young girl, rather than a daughter. In order to avoid misrepresenting the unknowable status of young Cle•s, translator Diane Rayor and others, such as David Campbell, chose to use the more neutral word "ch...
Socrates had turned from such philosophers and found for himself a way, not go gaze directly on the universal reason, but to seek an image of it in the world of mind, wherein are reflected the ideas, as, for example, the idea of beauty, through partaking of which beautiful things are ...
Epicurus was no atheist, but he believed that the gods took no interest in the affairs of this world, and lived a life of their own in uninterrupted tranquillity. For this reason, belief in divine providence was superstition, and religious rituals were worthless at best. 伊壁鸠鲁不是无神论者...
he asserted that philosophizing and the memory and love of his distant friends made pleasure prevail even then. Nor was Epicurus an atheist. His Roman admirer the poetLucretius(flourished 1st centurybce), in his poemDe rerum natura(On the Nature of Things), praised Epicurus enthusiastically as ...