Limit and Variation in the Epicurean Philosophy

Just How “Like Horace in the True Horatian Vein” Was Robert Frost?

“…5 Like the Christian concept of evil the Epicurean notion of happiness is essentially privative, essentially limited; with the removal of pain and fear it is vain to try to maximize the essentially negative quality of pleasure and erect it into ecstasy. Epicurus taught that "freedom from pain and fear is the telos .…”