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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]

, 2017
: Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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The making of style: On the entanglement of algorithms and aesthetics

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The global fashion industry is changing with the integration of digital technologies. Designers now employ digital design software, tools and technology to develop innovative designs, purchase fabrics and materials and market their new designs.
Heather A. Horst
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Pleasure [PDF]

, 2015
The history of the political thought on pleasure is not a cloistered affair in which scholars only engage one another. In political thought, one commonly finds a critical engagement with the wider public and the ruling classes, which are both perceived ...
Wimberly, Cory
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Jungian categories as modes of reading: The case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 2, Page 89-110, April 2026.
Abstract This essay advocates renewed attention toward Jungian literary criticism, emphasizing its unique and creative perspectives on both fictional worlds and on reading. A fresh turn to Jungian criticism offers, in particular, valuable insight for texts on the peripheries of the canon.
Edsel Parke
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Le roi philosophe

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2008
To his supporters, Joseph I was the personification of the «philosopher king». Patriots took up the expression, but as a term of derision, claiming that his forte was not philosophy but epicureanism.
Gérard Dufour
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How Does Death Harm the Deceased? [PDF]

, 2017
The most popular philosophical account of how death can harm (or be bad for) the deceased is the deprivation account, according to which death is bad insofar as it deprives the deceased of goods that would have been enjoyed by that person had the person ...
Cyr, Taylor W.
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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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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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Mirabilia et philosophie. Quelques remarques sur le chant VI du De rerum natura

Aitia, 2020
This paper concerns book 6 of De rerum natura, whose epicurean content and scope were challenged in a recent monograph. In this context, the connection between Lucretian meteorology and the Epicurean doctrine is examined to provide answers to two ...
Sabine Luciani
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Rational a priori or Emotional a priori? Husserl and Scheler’s Criticisms of Kant Regarding the Foundation of Ethics [PDF]

, 2011
Based on the dispute between Protagoras and Socrates on the origin of ethics, one can ask the question of whether the principle of ethics is reason orfeeling/emotion, or whether ethics is grounded on reason or feeling/emotion.
Zhang, Wei
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