Epikur

Epikur (kwa Kilatini na lugha mbalimbali Epicurus, kutoka Kigiriki Ἐπίκουρος, Epíkouros, yaani "Mwenzi"; 341–270 KK) alikuwa mwanafalsafa wa Ugiriki wa Kale, maarufu kama mwanzilishi wa shule ya falsafa yenye jina lake (kwa Kiingereza: Epicureanism). 

Maandishi
Kati ya maandishi yake 300 hivi, zimebaki tu sehemu na barua chache; zaidi tunajua kutoka kwa wafuasi wake na wengineo waliofafanua mafundisho yake. 

Mafundisho
Kwake, lengo la falsafa ni kufikia maisha yenye heri, utulivu, amani, kutoogopa, kutoteseka, kujitegemea na kuzungukwa na marafiki. Kwake raha na maumivu ndio vigezo vya uadilifu au uovu wa mambo yoyote. Pia kifo ni mwisho wa mwili na roho, hivyo hakitakiwi kuogopwa. Tena hakuna miungu ambao waadhibu wala kutuza binadamu. Ulimwengu hauna mipaka na ni wa milele. 

Tanbihi

Marejeo
 Maandishi yake






 Oates, Whitney J. (1940). The Stoic and Epicurean philosophers, The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius. New York: Modern Library.


 Ufafanuzi
 Bailey C. (1928). The Greek Atomists and Epicurus, Oxford: Clarendon Press.










 William Wallace. Epicureanism. SPCK (1880)

Viungo vya nje

 Society of Friends of Epicurus – Epicurean community
 Stoic And Epicurean by Robert Drew Hicks (1910) (Internet Archive)
 Epicurus.net  – Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
 Epicurus and Lucretius – small article by "P. Dionysius Mus"
 The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature – Karl Marx's doctoral thesis
 Epicurus on Free Will
 The Garden of Epicurus – useful summary of the teachings of Epicurus
 Philosophy of Happiness (PDF) 
 Epicurea, Hermann Usener - full text

Sura
 Discussion, bibliography, 3D models of the lost portrait

Vyanzo
 Principal Doctrines  – unidentified translation
 Principal Doctrines – the original Greek, two English translations, and a parallel mode
 Vatican Sayings  – unidentified translation
 Vatican Sayings – the original Greek with an English translation
 Letter to Herodotus 
 Letter to Pythocles 
 Letter to Menoeceus 
 Epicurus: Fragments - Usener's compilation in English translation

Category:Waliozaliwa 341 KK
Category:Waliofariki 270 KK
Category:Wanafalsafa wa Ugiriki ya Kale
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