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.
It was typical of the epicureanism and optimism in this display — and the overall life and art of the Illinois-born designer.
From Seattle Times
In this context, my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt e-mailed me recently a problem raised by Lucretius’ version of Epicureanism: “Since we are all made up out of the atoms that we share with inanimate matter, is there a particular value in life forms?”
From Scientific American
There’s likely no significance to him sharing a first name with the Roman philosopher known for espousing the materialist tenets of Epicureanism, but surely he is a relative of Caesar Flickerman, who hosts the Hunger Games during Katniss’ era.
From Slate
It was a tectonic shift from Francophilia and staid Americana to a sort of flirtatious Mediterranean epicureanism: pesto, raspberry vinegar, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, fancy olive oil, brie, chilled fruit soups.
From The New Yorker
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