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Foucault’s Epicureanism: Parrhēsia, Confession and the Genealogy of the Self
, 2023 This paper addresses the apparent absence of a systematic analysis of Epicureanism in Foucault's exploration of ancient philosophy. By considering Pierre Hadot's remark concerning Foucault's problematic neglect of the Epicurean notion of hēdonē, it ...
Testa, Federico
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Disciplining the “Queen of the World”? Responsible Innovation as a Way of Life
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3713-3724, October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reflection on the concept of responsible innovation as defined during the last decades. We argue that the emphasis on innovation as a process risks neglecting the very goals of innovation, namely societal desirability and acceptability. Thus, we suggest reconsidering the role of imagination, the “Queen of the world”
Xavier Pavie +2 more
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Aitia, 2020 The end of book 4 of De rerum natura is enigmatic for any reader well versed in Epicurean doctrine: beyond the Epicurean orthodoxy that warns us of the pleasures of love, book 4 actually insists on many joyful and pleasurable aspects of sexuality ...
Julie Giovacchini
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THOMAS CARLYLE ON EPICUREANISM IN THE FRENCH AND GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENTS
, 2017 The young Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) had perused many of the Epicurean writings of the French Enlightenment. According to Carlyle, such ‘Epicureanism’ consisted primarily in an emphasis upon pleasure and pain as the springs of human action, and a ...
ALEXANDER JORDAN
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Reception of Epicureanism at Rome: Cicero, Lucretius, and the Flexibility of Greek Models in the Late Republic [PDF]
, 2023 Epicureanism, a Greek philosophical school founded in Athens c. 307 BCE, conceives of “pleasure” (αταρξία) as the ultimate human good. This essay aims to investigate the reception of Epicureanism at Rome in the mid-1st century BCE, drawing on Cicero’s In
Painter, Katie
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Functions and Forms of Verbality in Spiritual Practices and Practices Related to Them
Консультативная 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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Epicureanism: slides for an Intro to Philosophy course
, 2018 Slides for an Introduction to Philosophy course at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Christina Hendricks
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The Self‐as‐Philosopher: A Schema‐Informed Reading of Philosophy as a Way of Life
Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 174-188, April 2026.Abstract This article offers an original reading of the process and outcomes of training in philosophy as a way of life. By drawing on research and theory from the fields of cognitive psychology and adult learning, it argues that the transformative effects frequently ascribed to the practice of philosophy as a way of life can helpfully be ...
Joel Owen
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A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism
K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2017 Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones.
Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi
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L’epicureismo nell’opera di Leo Strauss
Philosophy Kitchen, 2020 This essay aims to arrange and expose chronologically the references to Epicurus, Lucretius and the influence of their ideas contained in the works of Leo Strauss.
Raimondo Cubeddu
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