11. The social contract theory established by Epicureanism is based on mutual agreement, not divine decree. 12. The two predominant philosophical schools in Rome during Virgil's lifetime were Stoicism and Epicureanism . 13. Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism, though later it became the main opponent of Stoicism.14. It suggests simple living, creativity and Epicureanism as solutions to the problems of overwork and overconsumption. 15. Shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by Gassendi, Walter Charleton published several works on Epicureanism in English. 16. Epicureanism also resembles Buddhism in its temperateness, including the belief that great excess leads to great dissatisfaction.17. Cicero associates Cassius's new Epicureanism with a willingness to seek peace in the aftermath of the Africa. 18. With the dominance of the Neo-Platonism and Peripatetic School philosophy ( and later Christianity ), Epicureanism declined. 19. In the 17th century the French Franciscan priest, scientist and philosopher Pierre Gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving Epicureanism . 20. At the same time he holds, in opposition to Epicureanism , the doctrine of an immaterial rational free determination.
