Schools of Philosophy

The Epicureans were the members of a philosophical school founded by Epicurus of Athens (342-271 BCE) that taught that the gods took no interest in human affairs and that true happiness consisted of pleasure, or the absense of pain, to liberate people from fear of death and the supernatural.

The Stoics were the members of a philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium (335-263 BCE) that taught that humans could be happy only with natural law. They also taught that logos, divine reason or fire, was the guiding principle of nature.

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