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Ataraxia: A Modern Platonic Utopia
2023My research focuses on the effects on children raised according to the guidelines for training the Guardians of the ideal society described in Plato's Republic. I explore this concept creatively in a fictional modern Utopian community like that of B. F. Skinner's Walden Two and support this with firsthand accounts of the attempts to make Skinner's work
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A Study on the Interrelationship of Ataraxia and Truth in Pyrrhonism
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Ataraxia in Ancient Greek philosophy
2023In ancient Greek philosophy the concept of ataraxia (“absence of disturbance,” “freedom from anxiety,” “tranquility”) rapidly gained importance in the third century BCE during and after the conquests of Alexander the Great († 321 BCE). In this period most of the so-called Hellenistic philosophers—the Epicureans, Stoics, Academic skeptics, and ...
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Two Kinds of Tranquility: Sextus Empiricus on Ataraxia
2011Sextus Empiricus submits that Pyrrhonian skeptics are tranquil. He begins his explanation of skeptical tranquility by relating how people suffer anxiety when they are confronted with conflicting appearances. In order to alleviate this anxiety, and thereby gain tranquility, they seek ways of deciding which appearances are true and which false.
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Epicurus on Politics and Ataraxia
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THEOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF THE HARMONY OF THINGS: ATARAXIA AS THE EXPRESSION OF THE WILL
2016В статье исследуется экспликация и концептуализация понятия атараксии. Выяснено, что ориентир на гармонию в состоянии атараксии означает возможность входить в состав бытия как необходимой составляющей некоторого единства. Атараксия – показатель равновесия рационального и эмоционального в человеке, возможность снятия социальных антагонизмов ...
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Ancient Pyrrhonism and Ataraxia
Journal of the New Korean Philosophical Association, 2017openaire +1 more source