epicureanism

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The philosophic movements that emerged soon after Diogenes’ time, Stoicism and Epicureanism, aimed to help adherents overcome the fear of death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Epicurus founded a school of philosophy called Epicureanism, which taught that pleasure is the highest good.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

He’s an ascetic who is slowly, and hilariously, seduced by Epicureanism.

From New York Times • May 31, 2021

For Delattre, Epicureanism encompasses physics and ethics, a complete world view that he both studies and emulates.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

Stō′icalness; Stō′icism, the doctrines of the Stoics, a school of ancient philosophy strongly opposed to Epicureanism in its views of life and duty: indifference to pleasure or pain.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various