The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in Philosophy)

Epicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an independent state of mind and body, imperturbability, and reliance on sensory data as the true basis of knowledge.

Epicurus (ca. 341-271 B.C.) founded one of the most famous and influential philosophical schools of antiquity. In these remains of his vast output of scientific and ethical writings, we can trace Epicurus' views on atomism, physical sensation, duty, morality, the soul, and the nature of the gods.

• Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)
• The Art of Happiness (Penguin Classics)
• Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
• Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
• The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
• The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics)
• Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and Greek Edition)
• Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
• On the Nature of Things
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford Worlds Classics)