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Measuring adaptation to non-permanent employment contracts using a conjoint analysis approach [PDF]
This study attempts to uncover the ‘real’ impact of temporary contracts on workers’ perceived job quality, prior to the psychological phenomena of adaptation, coping and cognitive dissonance coming into play.
Pouliakas, Kostas, Theodossiou, Ioannis
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Epicurus in 20th–21st Century Lithuania: A Familiar or Neglected Thinker?
The article examines the history of the translation and interpretation of Epicurean philosophy sources in Lithuania during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Tatjana Aleknienė
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Care of the Self and Social Bonding in Seneca: Recruiting Readers for a Global Network of Progressor Friends [PDF]
This paper interprets the demonstrative retreat from public life and the promotion of self-improvement in Seneca’s later works as a political undertaking.
Wildberger, Jula
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Escaping the Death Drive: Epicurean Philosophy as a Path Forward for Psychoanalysis
This paper critically examines Freud’s theory of the death drive, as presented in his essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, by juxtaposing it with Epicurus’ philosophy of pleasure and tranquility.
Panagiotis Poulakidas
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Layout of ancient Greek papyri through lead-drawn ruling lines revealed by Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging. [PDF]
Romano FP +13 more
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Healthy and Happy Natural Being: Spinoza and Epicurus Contra the Stoics
In this paper I aim to undermine Stoic and Neo-Stoic readings of Benedict de Spinoza by examining the latter’s strong agreements with Epicurus (a notable opponent of the Stoics) on the nature and ethical role of pleasure in living a happy life ...
Brandon Smith
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Artificial Intelligence: First Do the Long Overdue Doable. [PDF]
Patwardhan A.
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On Cicero's Interpretation of 'Katastematic' Pleasure in Epicurus [PDF]
The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus has it referring to “static” states from which feeling is absent. We owe the prevalence of this interpretation to Cicero’s account of Epicureanism in his De Finibus Bonorum ...
Wenham, Mathew
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