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The Living in Lucretius’ “De rerum natura”: Animals’ “ataraxia” and Humans’ Distress
Relations, 2014 In trying to comprehend the human role among other living beings from an antispeciesist point of view it is possible to look back to those thinkers who, far before our times, had already considered other living beings from a non-anthropocentric ...
Alma Massaro
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Philosophy and Ataraxia in Sextus Empiricus
Peitho, 2013 This essay addresses two interconnected questions: (a) In what sense is Skepticism a philosophy? (b) How can ataraxia emerge out of epochē? Skepticism is a practice that articulates three moments: equipollence, epochē (suspension of judgment), and ...
Pascal Massie
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The impact of narratives and active video games among black and hispanic children with overweight and obesity: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityBackground Overweight and obesity disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic children who also play more video games. Narratives, coupled with home-based active video games (AVGs), may enhance PA and mitigate these disparities.
Amy S. Lu +9 more
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A reconceptualization of the term ataraxia based on its origins
Revista de Cultura de PazFew terms have been so severely disfigured in Europe as that of ataraxia. Initially, Hellenic thinkers created an entire philosophical phenomenon around this concept with their own, more or less successful, interpretations, but maintaining a relatively ...
Jaime Bravo Dector
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جدل المفارقة لدى إبيقور (الفکر المعرفي والأخلاق) [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2022 من الطبيعي أن تؤکد کل قضية فلسفية دائماً في قوة أنها شئ جديد. والعلة في هذا إن الأمور لا تسير على النحو الذي تظنه العامة لأول وهلة، فکل أمرئ يسير في حياته على نحو مختلف، وهنا تکمن بذرة المفارقات.
إلهام المعتز بالله عبد العظيم أبو الخير
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Love as Descent: Comparing the Models of Proclus and Dionysius through Eriugena
Religions, 2021 This paper explores the models of the providential-erotic descent in Neoplatonism and Christianity and the ethical consequences that these two models entail. Neoplatonic representative is an excerpt from Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades, where
Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
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The Practical Price of Pyrrhonism
Philosophies, 2023 Sextus Empiricus presents Pyrrhonism as a skeptical lifestyle that is appealing, in large part, because of the tranquility it appears to afford. Addressing concerns about the practicality of such a lifestyle, Sextus suggests that Pyrrhonists can lead ...
Jeremy Byrd
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2022 This article discusses the influence of Indian Buddhism on Greek Skepticism and their philosophical method of stress management through the Greek philosopher Pyrrho of Elis. That influence was the subject of two books with similar titles mentioning the “
Nikos Dimou
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Should Skepticism Be Discredited?
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 In our day-to-day life and experiences, when one doubts or questions unusually, he is branded a skeptic and consequently resisted. Skeptics, over the years, are seen as people whose basic mood is that of doubt; those who deny absolutely that true ...
Anthony Udoka Ezebuiro +2 more
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Sententiae, 2023 Review of Kuzminski, A. (2021). Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction. London & New York: Routledge.
Olena Kalantarova
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