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Epicureanism
A topic within Ancient Philosophy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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- BookNicomachean EthicsAristotle, 340 BCE
The good life is activity in accordance with virtue, and virtue is a disposition trained by habit rather than taught by rule.
- BookThe RepublicPlato, 375 BCE
Builds an ideal city to answer what justice is in a person, and produces the cave allegory along the way.