Epicurus, the Garden, and the Golden Age

In Fritz Allhoff & Dan O'Brien (eds.), Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 220–231 (2010-09-24)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The School in the Garden Prehistory and the Rise of Cities The Locus Amoenus and the Origins of Agriculture Diogenes of Oinoanda and the Future Epicurean Golden Age Notes.

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Epicurus, the garden, and the Golden Age   Epicurus, citizen of Athens ‐ but he was always something of an outsider   rivals of the Epicureans, the Stoics (“Men of the Stoa”), from their practice of teaching in Stoa Poikile (“Painted Colonnade”)   Epicurus' system of philosophy ‐ only true philosophy, and community of friends   Epicurean school was a community based on friendship – friendship, considered most important   Epicurus, philosophy was not worthy of the name ‐ if it had no therapeutic value   Epicurus' garden, important ethical function ‐ source of pleasure that heals both body and soul   Epicurus, had a hedonistic theory of ethics ‐ arguing that pleasure was the goal of human action   Lucretius, the Roman Epicurean poet of first century BCE ‐ “hence fear of punishments taint the prizes of life”   simple déjeuner sur l'herbe ‐ more pleasurable than banquets in gilded halls

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