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Ataraxia in Ancient Greek philosophy

, 2023
In 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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The Epicurean Concept of Fear and the Road to Ataraxia

2018
Epicurus was among the first philosophers to recognise the negative impact of fear upon peace of mind. This chapter argues that the Epicurean state of ataraxia was only to be achieved after a systematic therapy of fear, and above all by fighting the fear of death. Epicurus stressed that it is because of the negative impact of fear that humans live in a
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ATARAXIA

Medical Journal of Australia, 1957
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WAKING ATARAXIA

Yale Review, 2014
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Ataraxia and Metriopatheia: The Engaged Life of a Pyrrhonist

Synthese Library, 2022
Plinio Junqueira Smith
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WAKING, and: ATARAXIA

Yale Review, 2014
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Ataraxia

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Is Epicurus’ Ataraxia Individualistic?

2018
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Ataraxia as “Worldliness”

Symposium, 2020
The fundamental principle of Hans Blumenberg’s concept of Modernity is “immanent self-assertion,” through which the modern human being identifies within itself the possibilities of transforming or re-constructing the world according to a human order.
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Ataraxia Vanquishes Eros

Mnemosyne, 2020
Abstract This note details correspondences between Sappho fr. 16 (V.) and the proem to Book 2 of Lucretius’ De rerum natura. The author argues that Lucretius polemically alludes to Sappho.
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