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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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Some Japanese Shakespeare Productions in 2014-15 [PDF]
This essay focuses on some Shakespeare productions in Japan during 2014 and 2015. One is a Bunraku version of Falstaff, for which the writer himself wrote the script. It is an amalgamation of scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor and those from Henry IV.
Kawai, Shoichiro
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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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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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Naturalism as a joyful science : Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the art of life [PDF]
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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KANT AND THE «SPIRIT OF EPICURUS» (IN KANT’S PRE-CRITICAL AND CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
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
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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La mesure des affections dans l’épicurisme
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]
Epicureanism was seen by its opponents, both 'pagan' and Christian, as the philosophy of pleasure and atheism. From the theological point of view, the accusation of atheism was incorrect, since Epicurus and the Epicureansadmitted of the existence of ...
Angelicum. Pontificia Universita's Tommaso d'Aquino (Itàlia) +2 more
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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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