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Epicureism: Main Purpose

Epicureanism was a philosophy founded by Epicurus in the 4th century BC that focused on achieving happiness through balancing pleasures and eliminating fears of death and the gods. Epicureans sought to avoid both physical and mental pain by living simply and avoiding excessive luxuries. For Epicurus, happiness resulted from satisfying natural needs and desires while abstaining from unnecessary indulgences that cause pain.

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Epicureism: Main Purpose

Epicureanism was a philosophy founded by Epicurus in the 4th century BC that focused on achieving happiness through balancing pleasures and eliminating fears of death and the gods. Epicureans sought to avoid both physical and mental pain by living simply and avoiding excessive luxuries. For Epicurus, happiness resulted from satisfying natural needs and desires while abstaining from unnecessary indulgences that cause pain.

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EPICUREISM

BY: ANA MARÍA BALLESTEROS, MARIA JOSÉ DIAZ, SARA


SANDOVAL, MIACOLMENARES Y GABRIELA MARTINEZ.

The epicureism had


as purpose mainly
MAIN PURPOSE: the constant look of
happiness.from the
balance of pleasures
and the elimination
of fears caused by
ideas such as
destiny, the gods or
death

Epicurus, its creator, was


born in Athens in the 4th
century BC. of C. he is WHEN
recognized to have
developed an ethics of
pleasure, which held that the
goal of a happy life consisted
in the absence of both
physical and moral pain.

According to Epicureanism,
the principle of human
ACCORDING existence lies in the well-
being of the body and the
TOO.. mind, for which the
individual had to use
ataraxia, which was nothing
more than the perfect
balance between the two.

LFollowers of
Epicureanism were known
as Epicureans. Epicureans
had to avoid pain and
disturbances, as well as EPICUREANS.
excessive luxuries and
comforts in order to lead a
life in harmony and enjoy
peace.

For Epicurus, both pleasures


and sufferings were caused by
the satisfaction or the
ONLY impediment of the satisfaction
of appetites, which he
HAPPINESS? considered could be of three
types: natural and necessary,
natural but not necessary,
neither natural nor necessary,
and non-natural. natural but
necessa

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