Epicurean doctrine
Epicurus
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Epicurus's school is explicitly named and its tenets summarized, then met with pointed mockery.
Again, at supper, where all sorts of topics were discussed, and particularly that of Greece and her philosophers, Cineas happened somehow to mention Epicurus, and set forth the doctrines of that school concerning the gods, civil government, and the highest good, explaining that they made pleasure the highest good, but would have nothing to do with civil government on the ground that it was injurio …
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On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 1 citation
Epicurus and Epicurean doctrine are explicitly named and directly refuted regarding the primacy of pleasure and the nature of god
1 In this part we have a battle with the Epicureans, that soft and shadow-loving throng who philosophize over their banquet, in whose eyes virtue is the handmaid of pleasures, obeys them, is their slave, sees them above herself.
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