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Deleuze and Epicurean Philosophy: Atomic Speed and Swerve Speed
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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Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Forme e tipologie dell’autocitazione negli scritti di Epicuro [PDF]
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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Translating Epicurus and Bentham Kęstas Kirtiklis, Vilius Dranseika, Viktoras ...
Kęstas Kirtiklis +2 more
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Epicurus and Lucretius on the Creation of the Cosmos [PDF]
: 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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RINKTINIAI FRAGMENTAI IŠ EPIKŪRO „SVARBIAUSIŲ MINČIŲ“ IR GNOMOLOGIUM VATICANUM
Epicurus’ Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings: Selections Paulius Garbačiauskas >
Paulius Garbačiauskas
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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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Il passer epicureo: Lucrezio nei carmi 2 e 3 di Catullo
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the passer in Catullus’ cc. 2 and 3 is a symbol for the epicurean poet Lucretius. In c. 2 Catullus describes Lucretius’ bond with the epicurean sapientia (the puella) and hopes for himself to achieve peace ...
Nicola Piacenza
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Vatican Sentences: Gnomologicum Vaticanum Epicureum
With 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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Anti‐Consumerism: Stick or Carrot?
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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