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Deaf is nothing to us, seeing that when we are deaf is not come, and when death is come, we are not.
Who said this?
A philosopher born two and a half millennia ago.
Epicurus.
He was, in many ways, a remarkably modern philosopher.
Catherine Wilson is an epicurean scholar at York University.
Catherine Wilson, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you, Nigel.
Nice to be here.
The topic we're going to discuss is epicureanism.
Now, that obviously comes from the philosopher Epicurus, but could you say a little bit about who Epicurus was?
Epicurus was the leader of an athenian school working in the third century BCE.
And you can think of that as coming along a bit after Aristotle.
And the school was a competitor with the school of stoics.