10. Epicurus
He is one of the very first atheist writers in history. His theory is mostly inclined into ‘materialism,’ which is the view that all things are physical. For him, even the soul is made of material objects and the soul dies as the body dies. He did not believe in the afterlife, and also had something to say about “The Problem of Evil.”
“The soul cannot survive separation from the body since it is necessary to understand that it too is a part.
By itself, the soul cannot ever either exist (even though Plato and the Stoics talk a great deal of nonsense on the subject) or experience movement, just as the body does not possess sensation when the soul is released from it.”
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