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The 41 pages that link to Epicureanism, each with the reason it gives.

• StoicismCompared with: On happiness, gods, and death the two schools take nearly opposite positions at every point.

• CiceroCompared with: Cicero challenges its account of virtue, pleasure, providence, and the gods.

• AsceticismCompared with: Its measured pursuit of pleasure differs from renunciation as a spiritual discipline.

• EudaimoniaCompared with: Epicurus gives pleasure, rather than virtuous activity as such, the central role in the good life.

• Hellenistic philosophyCompared with: Epicurean pleasure differs sharply from Stoic virtue as the basis of happiness.

• PyrrhonismCompared with: Both connect calm with a way of life, but Epicureans affirm a physical theory Pyrrhonists avoid.

• CynicismCompared with: Epicureans also prized simplicity, but grounded it in pleasure rather than Cynic virtue.

• Marsilio FicinoCompared with: Ficino rejected Epicurean materialism as incompatible with his spiritual account of the soul.

• HappinessCompared with: It makes tranquility, rather than intense enjoyment, the central form of pleasure.

• ThanatophobiaCompared with: Epicurus argued that death should not be feared because it is not experienced by the dead.

• Greek philosophyCompared with: It makes tranquility through limited desires the ethical aim, unlike Stoic duty and resilience.

• PessimismCompared with: Its account of modest, attainable pleasure challenges claims that life’s goods cannot offset its burdens.

• Walter PaterCompared with: Pater’s title Marius the Epicurean invites comparison, but the novel does not simply endorse ancient Epicurean doctrine.

• Zeno of CitiumCompared with: Epicureans and Stoics offered competing accounts of happiness, nature, and the good life.

• Aristotelian ethicsCompared with: Its account of the highest good differs from Aristotle’s conception of flourishing through excellent activity.

• AcademyCompared with: Epicurean doctrines offered a competing account of nature and human flourishing.

• NeopythagoreanismCompared with: Its materialist account of the soul opposed Neopythagorean hopes for its survival and purification.

• NeostoicismCompared with: Its account of tranquility differs from Neostoicism’s emphasis on duty and steadfastness.

• PyrrhoCompared with: Epicureans trusted sensory evidence more than Pyrrhonian skeptics did.

• De OfficiisCompared with: Cicero presents the pursuit of private pleasure as a challenge to duties grounded in virtue and community.

• Ancient philosophyCompared with: Its account of pleasure and tranquility challenges rival ancient accounts of virtue and happiness.

• Epistulae Morales ad LuciliumCompared with: Seneca sometimes borrows Epicurean sayings while distinguishing Stoic accounts of virtue and pleasure.