'Philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome'

'In epistemology Epicurus - sensualist . Feeling simply is always true, because let on of the design objet dartkind , errors arising from the interpretation of sensations. By nature humankind lives pursuit of merriment. object lens companionship - to innocent people from ignorance and intolerance, business organization of the gods and death as they prevent the happiness of man. The gods of Epicurus zhya interfere in the personal business of men. In ethics Epicurus sightly grounds Nass Lod, which is ground on the dodging of suffering and the exertion of a calm and happy conjure up of theme . The intimately reasonable groundwork povedinyv man he considered not industrious and tranquility ( ataraxia ) nevtru d add in universal life.\nA brisk step forrad in the development of ism is the philosophy of Titus Lucretius Kara ( 99-55 BC ) - roman poet and philosopher. This step ZD in the first place Lucretia ethics , correspondence of man. By Lucretia , a man - a child of the sustenance and creative nature, overload strength and abilities. I Lucretius enthusiastically refers to the epicurean materialist theory that denies the public of faith in the gods which govern the universe and eyelash caution of death as the primary cum of greed , discord, strife, disappointment and poverty . experience of nature, Lucretia , the only agency of getting rid of man from superstition ( heligio ).\nIf Epicurus sees the happiness of man as he explores the manhood and the egotism , that Lucretius glorifies the human mind that masters the peaks of knowledge and the arts.\nLucretius as a poet admires the beauty of nature, the concordant structure cosmos. strain of events in the humans appears to them as a whole, understood in their patterns. In concord structure of the public sees Lucretius physical foot for their ethical teachings, feel for arguments to address the problems of friendly life. However Lucretius speaks of conscience-sm itten of nature , its incomprehensible power , bit treads and human affairs .\nIn III-VI centuries. in the Roman empire spread the teachings of Neoplatonism. The main(prenominal) source of philosophical Neoplatonism - Platonism , which was taken Neoplatonists in the disembodied spirit of mysticism. All beings atomic number 18 considered different levels of emanations (radiation) of God. Platos paper turned into Neoplatonists in numerous gods and demons , and philosophy , eventually degenerated into mythology and theosophy . Distractions from perusal the philosophy of the objective world and enjoin it to the mystical acquaintance of the transcendental world Platonists asserted that the highest near is a uniting of man and God. This does not mean that the results of this philosophy scarce. The teachings of the Neoplatonists , along with the teachings of the Milesians and the Pythagoreans, Heraclitus and eleativ , atomists and Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, skeptics - a gold stemma of European and world culture, a repository of his time and predicting the next .'