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European 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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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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Anti‐Consumerism: Stick or Carrot?
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT Anti‐consumerism is a doctrine that aims to discourage excessive consumption because of its damaging effect on the environment. It can either focus on creating psychic costs for consumers (a ‘stick’) or psychic benefits for non‐consumers (a ‘carrot’). This paper examines the impact of these two approaches on competition and welfare.
Iwan Bos +2 more
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Forme e tipologie dell’autocitazione negli scritti di Epicuro [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 This article offers a classification of various forms and types of intratextuality in Epicurus’ work. Starting from the main distinction between external and internal references to/within a text, this analysis focuses on didactic and argumentative ...
Vincenzo Damiani
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Deleuze and Epicurean Philosophy: Atomic Speed and Swerve Speed
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013 This paper reconstructs Gilles Deleuze’s interpretation of Epicurean atomism, and explicates his claim that it represents a problematic idea, similar to the idea exemplified in early, “barbaric” accounts of the differential calculus.
Michael James Bennett
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Sustainable Consumption for a Better Life: Consumer Well‐Being—A Review and Research Agenda
International Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 49, Issue 5, September 2025.ABSTRACT Studies on consumer responsible behavior (CRB) and consumer well‐being (CWB) have grown exponentially over the past 20 years. Although these lines of research have been developed independently, an important number of studies have focused on the connections between them.
Nuria García‐Rodríguez +2 more
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Epicurus and Lucretius on the Creation of the Cosmos [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 : Although in the extants of Epicurus there is not a direct mention to the atomic swerve, other sources, among them Lucretius, confirm that the Athenian philosopher foresaw in the presence of this unpredictable atomic movement the solution for the ...
Eliopoulos Panos
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Vatican Sentences: Gnomologicum Vaticanum Epicureum
EikasíaWith the publication of the Vatican Sentences, we began the project to edit the works and texts of Epicurus. We not only attempted to recover some of the writings we have available from the discoveries at the Villa of the Papyri, but also to update the ...
Epicurus, Román García Fernández
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