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Word | Epicureanism |
Japanese Meaning | 快楽主義 |
a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers / Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus / an ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, especially that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods., | |
Usage | ⇒ After Epicurus' death, Epicureanism continued to flourish as a philosophical movement. |
Synonyms | hedonism, luxury, sensuality, aesthetics, appetite, appetitiveness, artistic taste, connoisseurship, dilettantism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, eudaemonism, expertise, expertism, friandise, gastronomics, gastronomy, gourmandise, hedonic calculus, hedonics, |
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