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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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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2020 The following critical note aims at highlighting the liveliness and depth of three crucial thesis of Epicurean Ethics, by drawing on a recent publication, edited by Enrico Piergiacomi, of a selection of essays by Phillip Mitsis, A. S.
Chiara Rover
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Pleasure and Happiness Relationship in Ibn Sina and Epicureans [PDF]
حکمت سینویThe central issue of this paper is to explain the place of pleasure and happiness and their relationship in the thought of Ibn Sina and Epicurus, and to conduct a comparative study of these concepts.
Maryam Afshar, Mohammad Raayat Jahromi
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KANT AND THE «SPIRIT OF EPICURUS» (IN KANT’S PRE-CRITICAL AND CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2018 In the first part of the article, the relation of the ethics of Epicurus to Kant's practical philosophy is considered. Analyzing the principles on which the notion of the supreme good of the ancients was built, Kant paid special attention to the ...
V. A. Ter-Arakeliantz, A. V. Yukhno
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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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Heroic-idyllic philosophizing : Nietzsche and the Epicurean tradition [PDF]
, 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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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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, 1945 In the present work, we apply the asymptotic homogenization technique to the equations describing the dynamics of a heterogeneous material with evolving micro-structure, thereby obtaining a set of upscaled, effective equations.
University of Texas at Austin
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, 2015 The hedonistic theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are both widely known. Hedonism before Bentham, however, is much less known and, hitherto, no systematic presentation of hedonism’s early history has been written.
Moen, Ole Martin
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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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