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Why Death Is Most in One's Self-Interest, and Necessarily So. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Kriska V.
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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2020 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 Classical Quarterly, 2017 InFam.13.1 Cicero, visiting Athens en route to Cilicia in the summer of 51b.c., writes to C. Memmius L.f., praetor in 58 but by the time of Cicero's communication an exile in Athens after the shambolic consular elections for 53; Memmius was (temporarily, one assumes) absent from Athens in Mytilene, hence the need for Cicero to write to him. This letter,
Morgan, L, Taylor, B
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Etudes Epistémè, 2008 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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, 2022 This chapter claims that Atticus offers a fruitful case study of Epicureanism in the late Republic and can thereby contribute to broader questions of philosophical allegiance in the ancient world. There has, of course, been valuable discussion of philosophical allegiance in recent years. A reconsideration of Atticus’ Epicureanism will fruitfully extend
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2022 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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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection
Aitia, 2020 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
Argument, 2017 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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KANT AND THE «SPIRIT OF EPICURUS» (IN KANT’S PRE-CRITICAL AND CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2018 In the first part of the article, the relation of the ethics of Epicurus to Kant's practical philosophy is considered. Analyzing the principles on which the notion of the supreme good of the ancients was built, Kant paid special attention to the ...
V. A. Ter-Arakeliantz, A. V. Yukhno
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Amat bonus otia Daphnis (Verg. Ecl. V 61). L’ideale della concordia nella Ecloga V
Erga-LogoiAmat bonus otia Daphnis (Verg. Ecl. V 61). The ideal of concordia in Eclogue V The concept of concordia plays a key role in the political debate among Virgil’s contemporaries. Virgil himself highlights the role of discordia in Ecl.
Giacomo Dettoni
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