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Utopia

An Epicurean Ideal

David Suits fearlessly pursues a materialistic life of simple pleasures.

In 306 BCE, Epicurus, who was then about 35 years old, purchased a house on the outskirts of Athens. He invited people to stay in this Garden (as it came to be called) in order to discuss philosophy and to live a relatively simple and self-sufficient life in the company of friends and fellows.

The Garden was the first of many such Epicurean communities, and was still in existence five hundred years later. The promise of the Garden was simple: happiness. This Epicurus described (somewhat misleadingly) as a kind of pleasure.

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