Was he ahead of his time?

>>3282446
I liked his earlier work better

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>>3282446
No that title goes to Diogenes and his cynical views.

No, that'd be Parmenides. Epicurus wasn't an atheist or a empiricist, just some guy who wanted to live alone in a hut and eat some bread after fasting.
>>3282637
This, Cynicism is the objectively best way to live alone in a hut and eat scraps of bread. You get to be a cantankerous cunt and claim everyone else is living wrong. It's great

His ideas make sense only in his cultural and intellectual milieu, and application of his thought outside of this context is an abstraction of his position not held by him.

The greatest error in much of Western philosophy is to assume philosophers regardless of time or place contributed to the same debates.

He wasn't ahead of his time, but in it.

>>3282637
The world is still catching up to Diogenes

>>3283460
Epicurus
> What god would allow evil to exist?
Diogenes
> Why do we over complicate god and his gifts?, just live like a dog