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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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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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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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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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THE CONCEPT OF “ATARAXIA” IN THE LATER NOVELS OF BAROJA
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1957Much remains to be written about the later novels of Baroja. With a few praiseworthy exceptions the tendency among critics, especially outside Spain, has been to regard him as having written himself out by the early 'twenties and thus to place exclusive emphasis on the novels of the first period.
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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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The Epicurean Concept of Fear and the Road to Ataraxia
2018Epicurus 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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