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Le roi philosophe

open access: yesMélanges 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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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

open access: yesOrbis 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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Mirabilia et philosophie. Quelques remarques sur le chant VI du De rerum natura

open access: yesAitia, 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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Atomismus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Encyclopedia article briefly summarizing the history of atomism from antiquity to ...
Johnson, Monte
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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal 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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Functions and Forms of Verbality in Spiritual Practices and Practices Related to Them

open access: yesКонсультативная психология и психотерапия, 2014
Functions and forms, in which the verb is used in spiritual practices and practices related closely to them are analyzed systematically. The following classes of prac¬tices are considered: 1) Eastern-Orthodox hesychasm, 2) Hellenistic practices of the ...
Horujy S.S.
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Rational a priori or Emotional a priori? Husserl and Scheler’s Criticisms of Kant Regarding the Foundation of Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Heroic-idyllic philosophizing : Nietzsche and the Epicurean tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This essay looks at Nietzsche in relation to the Epicurean tradition. It focuses on his middle period writings of 1878–82 – texts such as Human, all too Human, Dawn, and The Gay Science – and seeks to show that an ethos of Epicurean enlightenment ...
Ansell-Pearson, Keith
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Marx's Concept of Life

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.
Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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Aisthesis: a brief introduction to the aesthetics of affections

open access: yesRevista Gearte, 2017
This article intends to present an introductory panorama of aesthetic studies from the bias of affections. In this sense, aesthetics is marked by human affections and not by correspondence with some criterion of beauty (consolidated vision in the fields ...
Renato Camassutti Bedore   +1 more
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