300 B.C
Posits
Assume
Suggest
Highest good
The pure pursuit of tangible,
intrinsic pleasure
One might attain,
happiness by eschewing pain,
and discovering pleasure,
in accordance with nature
Hell leather
Epicureanism
Everything we do
is done for the sake
Ultimately gaining pleasure
Philosophical view
Simplistic too
Physis nature
Nomos law
Shaping a human-nature relationship
in Ancient Greek Philosophy bore
Dichotomy,
between natural law and positive law
Epicureanism saw
A habit
Custom of Social and Political behaviour
Socially constructed,
and historically specific
Classical Era
Nature was not a Scientific bearer

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