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La herencia de las Sententiae de Publilio Siro en las paremias españolas en torno a la avaricia
The aim of this paper is to present the Spanish proverbs related to the topic of greed that can be understood as a continuation of Publilius Syrus’ sentences.
Xavier Pascual-López
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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi
The following critical note aims at highlighting the liveliness and depth of three crucial thesis of Epicurean Ethics, by drawing on a recent publication, edited by Enrico Piergiacomi, of a selection of essays by Phillip Mitsis, A. S.
Chiara Rover
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The Epicurean Parasite: Horace, Satires 1.1-3 [PDF]
We have learned a great deal in recent years about reading Horace\u27s satires; there is now widespread agreement that the speaker of the satires is himself a character within them, a persona.
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In a pioneering study of 1934 Thomas Franklin Mayo was among the first to suggest the idea of an Epicurean « Renaissance » in England from the year 1650 onwards.
Line Cottegnies
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From La Mettrie's voluptuous machine man to the perverse core of psychology [PDF]
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709—1751) solved the problem of Cartesian dualism by denying the res cogitans any substance as such. He thus provided science with a basic paradigm which is still respected today. For La Mettrie, all aspects of the soul have
De Vos, Jan
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Kant and the duty to promote one’s own happiness [PDF]
In his discussion of the duty of benevolence in §27 of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that agents have no obligation to promote their own happiness, for ‘this happens unavoidably’ (MS, AA 6:451).
Kahn, Samuel
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If our knowledge of Epicurean philosophy depended exclusively upon the information conveyed by their adversaries, we would be practically unaware of the political component of the Epicurean study of nature (φυσιολογία), and of the political ...
Javier Aoiz, JA, Marcelo D. Boeri, MDB
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Epicureanism and Skepticism about Practical Reason [PDF]
Epicureans believe that death cannot harm the one who dies because they hold the existence condition, which states that a subject is able to be harmed only while they exist.
Frugé, Christopher
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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection
Lucretius sometimes speaks of the mind ‘projecting’ itself, echoing the Epicurean Greek technical term epibolē. The way in which he and other first-century BCE Epicureans use this concept, however, elevates it beyond anything we can find in Epicurus, and
David Sedley
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Polemika przeciwko polemice. Plutarcha krytyka epikureizmu
Polemic against polemics. Plutarch’s attacks on Epicureanism Plutarch’s attitude toward Epicurean philosophy is extremely hostile. According to him, at the core of Epicureanism is subversiveness, an attempt to attack the most fundamental components of ...
Krzysztof ŁAPIŃSKI
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