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Abortion and the Epicurean challenge
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019AbstractIn a recent article in this journal, Anna Christensen raises an ‘Epicurean challenge’ to Don Marquis’ much-discussed argument for the immorality of abortion. According to Marquis’ argument, abortion ispro tantomorally wrong because it deprives the fetus of ‘a future like ours’.
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2009
Epicureanism was one of the major philosophical systems of the Hellenistic world. It provided a systematic account of the nature of the world and our place in it, how we can come to know the world, and how we can attain happiness. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (c.341-270 BCE) the Epicurean school of philosophy flourished for hundreds of years after ...
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Epicureanism was one of the major philosophical systems of the Hellenistic world. It provided a systematic account of the nature of the world and our place in it, how we can come to know the world, and how we can attain happiness. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (c.341-270 BCE) the Epicurean school of philosophy flourished for hundreds of years after ...
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2019
A brief sketch of the reception of Epicureanism in early modern natural philosophy and metaphysics (15th-18th centuries)
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A brief sketch of the reception of Epicureanism in early modern natural philosophy and metaphysics (15th-18th centuries)
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2020
Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinoza’s materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are rediscovered.
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Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinoza’s materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are rediscovered.
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2017
Epicureanism has long been perceived as a theory of hedonism imbodying many contradictions and unintuitive directives. The fact that much of the surviving work of Epicurus exists only through the works of Roman scholars seeking to discount his ideas is a good reason to believe that Epicureanism has been misperceived and misrepresented.
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Epicureanism has long been perceived as a theory of hedonism imbodying many contradictions and unintuitive directives. The fact that much of the surviving work of Epicurus exists only through the works of Roman scholars seeking to discount his ideas is a good reason to believe that Epicureanism has been misperceived and misrepresented.
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2010
The focus of my thesis is Epicurean epistemology. Epicurean epistemology is based the thesis according to which all perceptions are true obliging himself to empiricism. However his strong epistemological empiricism is combined with and even defended through atomistic theory, according to which the knowledge of the real structure of the world goes ...
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The focus of my thesis is Epicurean epistemology. Epicurean epistemology is based the thesis according to which all perceptions are true obliging himself to empiricism. However his strong epistemological empiricism is combined with and even defended through atomistic theory, according to which the knowledge of the real structure of the world goes ...
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The Poison and the Spider's Web: Diderot and Eighteenth-Century French Epicureanism
History of European Ideas, 2015Jared Holley
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