Epicurus Biography - Profile, Childhood, Personal Life, Major Writings

Full Name: Epicurus
Known AS: Founder of the Epicurean School

Father Name: Neocles (teacher)
Mother Name: Chairestrate
Marital Status: Never Married
Date of Birth: 04 February 341 BC
Birth Place: Samos, Athens, Greece
Date of Death: 270 BC (aged 72)
Death Place: Athens, Greece
Cause of Death: Kidney Stones
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Philosopher
Nationality: Ancient Greece
Major Writings: Letter on happiness, Epicurea

Influenced: Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Michel Onfray, David Hume, Philodemus, Michel Foucault, Pierre Gassendi, Han Ryner

Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341 BC-270 BC) is one of the famous philosophers in the Hellenistic period. He is considered as the founder of the Epicurean School. Epicurus was the first of the philosophers who supported the atomic theory. His works influenced most of modern philosopher.

Early Life & Childhood:

Epicurus was born on 04 February 341 BC in Samos, Athens, Greece after six years of Plato's death. He studied philosophy with a Platonist teacher named Pamphilus. At the age of 18, Epicurus moved to Athens where he served his military service for two years. After leaving his military service, he joined with his family in Samos, Athens. Then he studied under Nausiphanes. After that, Epicurus moved to Lampsacus where he founded a school.

Personal Life:

Epicurus's father Neocles was a teacher and his mother named Chairestrate. His family immigrated on the Aegean island of Samos before few years of his birth. Epicurus un married.

Later Life & Death:

In 306 BC, Epicurus returned to Athens and bought some land. He founded a school on this land named The Garden. Epicurus as well as his school showed an indifferent for the formal logic of Aristotle and the Stoics. Epicurus played an important role to the development of science and the scientific method. His ideas about nature and physics predicted the important scientific concepts of our present time. Epicurus died on 270 BC after suffering from kidney stones.

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