Epicurus

Epicurus

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Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting-point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

Letter to Menoeceus

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Writings by Epicurus

[books / book excerpts]

· Principal Doctrines.

· Vatican Sayings.

[letters]

· To Herodotus.

· To Idomeneus.

· To Menoeceus.

· To Pythocles.

[miscellaneous]

Writings about Epicurus

[dictionary / encyclopaedia entries]

· Epicureanism. Catholic Encyclopedia.

· Epicurus. The Columbia Encyclopedia.

· Epicurus. Encyclopædia Britannica (1911).

· Epicurus. Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy.

· Epicurus. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

· Epicurus. The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy.

· Epicurus. Wikipedia.

[other writings]

· The Epicurean. By David Hume. 1742.

· The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. By Karl Marx. 1841.

General websites

· Epicurus & Epicurean Philosophy.

part of Pablo Stafforini's Utilitarian Philosophers series

David Hume · Jeremy Bentham · William Godwin · James Mill

John Stuart Mill · Henry Sidgwick · R. M. Hare · Peter Singer

see also: David Pearce's Utilitarianism Resources