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Ancient Greece – This is era was from 700-480 B.C. before the Classical Age of Greece.

This era was also


called as Archaic Greece. The era is all about the rising of different arts, poetry, technology, and city-
state. Before the Greek civilization was scattered along the parts of Greece during the Greek Dark Ages.
Because if that particular problem the said by the society, government was created and made the living
organized due to fact that someone handles a nation.

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Epicurus – He is a major Philosopher coming from the Hellenistic Era. He Philosophized that everything
we have is made up of atoms which is uncuttable and it is flying through space. He rejected the Platonic
forms that Gods has an influence to our lives and material soul. Pointing out that one’s actions was to
attain pleasure (conceived of as tranquility) for oneself. Making it to explain that people must remove
the fear from gods and death making it to conclude freedom.

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Philosophy - “while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.”

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fear-of-death/

*Epicurus is very known to be interested with pleasure but due to fact that many confusions arise
towards his philosophy they are very advance and develop that lead to be influential to different
generations. His goal is to achieve peace in mind and to avoid pain and lead everyone a simple life.

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