It attempted to free mankind from fear and usher in serenity based on the conviction that man is helpless in
the face of a universe which he cannot control. The Greeks were concerned with mastering the universe filled with hostile powers and to gain control of this life and that to come.
Epicurus identified the good with pleasure;
And the supreme good was the absence of bodily and mental pain. It also included the limitation of all desires and the practice of virtue.
The philosopher advised withdrawal from public or political life but he was for the cultivation of friendship.
Epicurus advocated simple pleasure, friendship and retirement. In his school he admitted women unlike Plato or Aristotle.
Epicurus was very famous in Rome in the first century BC.
“Eat drink and be merry,’ came to be associated as his core thougt