What Is Epicureanism? “No pleasure is a bad thing in itself, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail disturbances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.” Epicureanism is an ancient greek philosophical system founded by Epicurus in the 4th century B.C.E.  After Epicurus’ death, Epicureanism became one of two major schools of thought in

What is Existentialism? Existentialism is, broadly speaking, the inquiry into the nature of human existence, what it is to be human, and what it means to be human. What draws the thinkers and writers we refer to as existentialists together is their rejection the attempt to approach these subjects from an objective, metaphysical standpoint, seeking