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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:philosophy
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gptkbp:declinedAfter
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3rd century AD
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gptkbp:focusesOn
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pleasure as the highest good
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gptkbp:foundedBy
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gptkb:Epicurus
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gptkbp:foundedIn
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307 BC
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Epicurean school
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Horace
gptkb:Lucretius
gptkb:Thomas_Jefferson
gptkb:Roman_Epicureanism
gptkb:Philodemus
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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Democritus
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gptkbp:languageOfInstruction
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Athens
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gptkbp:mainFigure
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gptkb:Epicurus
gptkb:Lucretius
gptkb:Hermarchus
gptkb:Metrodorus_of_Lampsacus
gptkb:Philodemus
gptkb:Titus_Pomponius_Atticus
gptkb:Polystratus
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gptkbp:mainLine
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gptkb:Letter_to_Herodotus
gptkb:Letter_to_Menoeceus
gptkb:Letter_to_Pythocles
gptkb:Principal_Doctrines
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gptkbp:opposedBy
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gptkb:superstition
fear of death
fear of gods
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gptkbp:philosophy
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gptkb:Epicureanism
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gptkbp:revival
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gptkb:Renaissance
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gptkbp:rival
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gptkb:Peripatetic_school
gptkb:Platonist_school
Stoic school
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gptkbp:schoolNameInGreek
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Κήπος (The Garden)
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gptkbp:schoolNameInLatin
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Hortus
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gptkbp:teaches
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materialism
atomism
absence of pain (aponia)
ataraxia (tranquility)
death is the end of sensation
pursuit of simple pleasures
avoidance of political life
friendship as key to happiness
gods exist but are indifferent
naturalistic explanation of the world
virtue as a means to pleasure
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Timocrates_of_Lampsacus
gptkb:Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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