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Cicero and his Clamorous Silences: was he Fair Enough with the Epicure-ans and their Ethical and Political Views?

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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Fortunatus et ille: Vergil’s Ironic Epicureanism

, 2023
The end of the second book of the Georgics has long puzzled readers. Why does Virgil present such an unrealistically happy view of the life of the farmer here, when the poem offers so many examples of hardship and misery elsewhere?
Heslin, Peter
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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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Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death: Epicureanism in the Subtitle of Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise [PDF]

, 2020
It is often put forward that the entire political project of epicureanism consists in the overcoming of fear, whereby its scope is deemed to be very narrow.
Vardoulakis, Dimitris
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Roman Epicureanism and Lucretius [PDF]

, 1967
This thesis argues that the Epicureans did not simply repeat the ipsa dicta of Epicurus, but developed new areas of study - (e.g., logic, rhetoric) of which Epicurus did not approve. This transmuted Epicureanism influenced the Romans of the late Republic
Browne, Wheelwright John
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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 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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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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From Epicureanism to Stoicism: Central European Literary Responses to History of the Twentieth Century and Exile (Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig)

European Journal of Life Writing
The article addresses Central European historical experiences of the twentieth century manifesting in the fates of Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig.
Aleksandra Tobiasz
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