After surviving artwork
Epicurus
341–270 BCE
PhilosophyEthicsPhysicsAncient Greek
Founded a garden school teaching that pleasure, properly understood, is freedom from fear and pain.
After surviving artwork. After surviving ancient portrait busts.
Why they still matter
He argued that physics could cure anxiety — that understanding nature removes the terror of death.
The world they thought in
Athens after Alexander, when philosophy became a way of living.
The questions they worked on
Reality
What is actually there behind appearances?
The good life
How should a person live, given that they will die?
Take this further
Ponderers is the historical layer. A rabbit hole brings the same question into what people are arguing about now.