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MEMMIUS THE EPICUREAN

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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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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La mesure des affections dans l’épicurisme

Pallas, 2012
Measure plays a major role in epicureanism, a thought built up on the basis of a «  canon  ». The basic affections of pleasure and pain submit to such a process, though with due respect to that which is proper to the body on the one hand and to the soul ...
François Prost
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The Rejection of the Epicurean Ideal of Pleasure in Late Antique Sources: not Only Misunderstandings [PDF]

, 2014
No disponible en català. Vegeu resum en anglèsEpicureanism was seen by its opponents, both ‘pagan’ and Christian, as the philosophy of pleasure and atheism.
,, ,, Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.
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Amat bonus otia Daphnis (Verg. Ecl. V 61). L’ideale della concordia nella Ecloga V

Erga-Logoi
Amat 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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Was epicurus a buddhist? An examination and critique of the theories of negative happiness in buddha and epicurus

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2010
Comparisons betw western philosophies are uncommon and this, among other things, hinders global philosophical discourse. Thus, in this essay I want to compare the philosophies of the Buddha and Epicurus for similarities, particular in regard to what I ...
Adam Barkman
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Naturalism as a joyful science : Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the art of life [PDF]

, 2016
In this article I explore naturalism as a joyful science by focusing on how Nietzsche and Deleuze appropriate an Epicurean legacy. In the first section I introduce some salient features of Epicurean naturalism and highlight how the study of nature is to ...
Ansell-Pearson, Keith
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Épictète et l’épicurisme : Entretiens, III, 7 (et autres passages)

Aitia, 2022
This paper aims to offer an overview of Epicurean doctrines in Epictetus’ work. I begin with Discourse 3.7, but I also include quotations from the other Discourses.
Francesca Alesse
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L’epicureismo nell’opera di Leo Strauss

Philosophy Kitchen, 2020
This essay aims to arrange and expose chronologically the references to Epicurus, Lucretius and the influence of their ideas contained in the works of Leo Strauss.
Raimondo Cubeddu
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