Epicureanism
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Epicureanism is a school of philosophy founded upon the teachings of its founder Epicurus It was known, to Rome, from the mid 2nd Century B.C. as a philosophical school and a way of life. It was immenesely popular in Italy during the 1st Century B.C. but by the 2nd Century A.D Stoicism was paramount.
- pleasure was the telos of epicureanism
- this was achieved by rational calculus συμμετρησισ, a selection (αιρεσισ) an aversions (φυγη)are to be evaluated by the pleasure it gives (129),[1]
