Epicureanism

School founded by Epicurus in Athens (the Garden, c. 307 BC): atoms and void, freedom from fear of the gods and of death, pleasure as the absence of pain and disturbance. Its fullest surviving statement is Lucretius's De Rerum Natura.

RENAISSANCE 3.0 POSITION: Lucretius's torch of life handed on, the image of debt paid forward in Caring like a Fire.

· 307 BCE– · dormant