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Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper, it is argued that there can be necessary and non-natural desires. After a discussion about what seems wrong with such desires, Epicurus’ classification of desires is treated similarly to Kripke’s treatment of the Kantian table of ...
Fabien Schang
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2023 Recensione di Sergio YONA, Gregson DAVIS, Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York 2022, 207 pp. ISBN 9781108845052.
Margherita Erbì
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Reversing the Invention of Religio
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2022 This article provides an intertextual analysis of DRN 1.62-79, showing that the Sisyphus fragment (D.-K. 88B25), which represents a summa of ancient atheism, is a crucial model for Lucretius’ first eulogy of Epicurus, both at a macro and at a micro ...
Manuel Galzerano
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Embracing the Nothingness of Death as a Form of Death Acceptance: a Study Based on Irvin Yalom’s “Staring at the Sun” [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și LiteraturăThis paper examines Irvin Yalom’s Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, focusing on how Yalom utilizes Epicurean philosophy to address and mitigate death anxiety.
Cristina M. BOTÎLCĂ
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Doute et prudence dans la première Méditation de Descartes
Lexicon PhilosophicumAt the very beginning of the first Meditation, Descartes states: "I have sometimes felt that these senses were deceitful, and it is prudence never to trust entirely those who have once deceived us".
Alberto Frigo
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Necessity and Chance in Marx's Doctoral Thesis [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهAccording to Marx's interpretation, in the Democritean system, atoms move in a vacuum according to a blind necessity. Applying the word "accidental" to the Democritus system does not imply the unpredictable or causeless movement of atoms; rather, it ...
Ali Karbasizadeh Esfahani, Milad Omrani
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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DNA Di Nulla AcademiaStarting from ancient texts including examples of risk communication, this paper analyzes the famous speech (13 may, 1940) in which Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised to the United Kingdom «blood, toil, tears and sweat».
Luigi Spina
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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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