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Single Idea 2922

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought ]

Full Idea

Every mind of any account in the Roman Empire was an Epicurean.

Gist of Idea

All intelligent Romans were Epicureans

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 58)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.181

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The 7 ideas with the same theme [landmarks in Greek thought, and other early cultures]:

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

3051	Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius]

1542	Diogenes of Apollonia was the last natural scientist [Diogenes of Apollonia, by Simplicius]

22733

Epicurus accepted God in his popular works, but not in his writings on nature [Epicurus, by Sext.Empiricus]

2922	All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche]

7500	Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault]

23392

The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]