Abstract:
A lot of people criticized Epicurus’s philosophical thoughts because there are speculative and metaphysics in his thought. It has been considered that his thought cannot be compared entirely to the speculative philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. However, it is true that the characters of Epicurus’s philosphical contribution to the development of western philosophy is because he cannot agree to the idea of Academism and Peripatetic for philosophy.It is seem to him that philosophy is a Treatment of the soul and the purpose of philosophy is to help to realize a happy life. The happy life is the life without fear on the mind, pain on the body and no turmoil soul. From this meaning, Epicurus created an other way of western philosophy which was different from the speculative philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. The important field of the classical philosophy in the west must not ignored. The classical philosophy must be imperfect if we cannot attach importance to the research of Epicurus.