| 21. | The dominant philosophical traditions of the Greco-Roman world at the time were Stoicism, Platonism, and Epicureanism.
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| 22. | Philonides attempted to convert Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Epicureanism, and later instructed his nephew Demetrius I Soter in philosophy.
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| 23. | Epicureanism holds that happiness is the absence of suffering, which is simple to obtain if one has the basic necessities.
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| 24. | Epicureanism rejects immortality and mysticism; it believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is as mortal as the body.
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| 25. | In his recent book titled " The Swerve ", Stephen Greenblatt identified himself as strongly sympathetic to Epicureanism and Lucretius.
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| 26. | Within the six major schools of the Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism-the sage was a featured figure.
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| 27. | During the pre-Christian Roman Empire, Stoicism was one of the three dominant schools of philosophy, along with Epicureanism and Neoplatonism.
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| 28. | An example of one of " those metaphysical subtleties " that Rousseau may have been referring to was the consideration of materialism or Epicureanism.
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| 29. | Lorenzo Valla was among the first to extol the virtues of Epicureanism, though with an understanding no greater than that of John of Salisbury.
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| 30. | Epicureanism saw the origin of the soul ( considered to consist of only a small number of atoms even in adults ) as simultaneous with conception.
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