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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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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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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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The polemical practice in ancient Epicureanism [PDF]

, 2019
The article explores the presentation methods of a philosophical doctrine in Greek and Roman Epicureanism; it is shown that for the ancient, middle, and Roman Epicureans a controversy with representatives of other philosophical schools was a typical ...
Shakhnovich, Marianna M.
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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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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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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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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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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