| 11. | The social contract theory established by Epicureanism is based on mutual agreement, not divine decree.
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| 12. | The two predominant philosophical schools in Rome during Virgil's lifetime were Stoicism and Epicureanism.
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| 13. | Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism, though later it became the main opponent of Stoicism.
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| 14. | It suggests simple living, creativity and Epicureanism as solutions to the problems of overwork and overconsumption.
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| 15. | Shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by Gassendi, Walter Charleton published several works on Epicureanism in English.
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| 16. | Epicureanism also resembles Buddhism in its temperateness, including the belief that great excess leads to great dissatisfaction.
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| 17. | Cicero associates Cassius's new Epicureanism with a willingness to seek peace in the aftermath of the Africa.
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| 18. | With the dominance of the Neo-Platonism and Peripatetic School philosophy ( and later Christianity ), Epicureanism declined.
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| 19. | In the 17th century the French Franciscan priest, scientist and philosopher Pierre Gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving Epicureanism.
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| 20. | At the same time he holds, in opposition to Epicureanism, the doctrine of an immaterial rational free determination.
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