Epicurus

Epicurus (/ˌɛpɪˈkjʊərəs/ or /ˌɛpɪˈkjɔːrəs/;^[2] Greek: [Ἐπίκουρος, Epíkouros] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), "ally, comrade"; 341–270 BC) wis an auncient Greek filosopher as well as the foonder o the schuil o filosofie cried Epicureanism.

Epicurus
Roman marble bust o Epicurus
Born	Februar 341 BC Samos
Dee'd	270 BC Athens
Naitionality	Greek
Era	Auncient filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Schuil	Epicureanism
Main interests	Atomism, Materialism
Notable ideas	'Movin' pleasurs (κατὰ κίνησιν ἡδοναί) an 'static' pleasurs (καταστηματικαί ἡδοναί)[1]
Influences Democritus, Pyrrho
Influenced Hermarchus, Lucretius, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Michel Onfray, Hadrian, Metrodorus o Lampsacus (the younger), David Hume, Philodemus, Amafinius, Catius, Michel Foucault, Pierre Gassendi, Han Ryner

References

1. Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, X:136.
2. Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.