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The 22 pages that link to Epicurus, each with the reason it gives.

• Problem of evilRelated: A famous dilemma associated with him frames the tension in the problem.

• AtheismRelated: His account of gods as unconcerned with human affairs challenged popular ideas of providence.

• TheodicyRelated: A later argument attributed to him frames the tension between divine power, goodness, and evil.

• AtomismRelated: He made atoms and void central to a systematic philosophy.

• MaterialismRelated: His atomism opposed supernatural explanations of natural events.

• NaturalismRelated: His account of nature sought to explain events without divine intervention.

• HedonismRelated: His ethics makes pleasure the highest good while defining it chiefly as freedom from distress.

• Hellenistic philosophyRelated: His school developed a systematic alternative to Stoic and skeptical accounts of happiness.

• DemocritusRelated: Epicurus developed a later atomism that drew on the tradition associated with Democritus.

• LucretiusRelated: Lucretius presents Epicurus as the source of the philosophy his poem teaches.

• De rerum naturaRelated: Lucretius presents Epicurus as the thinker who freed humanity from religious fear.

• LibertarianismRelated: His atomic swerve is an early attempt to make room for undetermined action.

• Michel OnfrayRelated: Onfray treats Epicurus as a key ancestor of his materialist hedonism.

• IrreligionRelated: His naturalistic account became a lasting resource for later critiques of religious explanations.

• School of AbderaRelated: His later atomism inherited the Abderite framework but changed its account of atomic motion.