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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
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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Sustainable Consumption for a Better Life: Consumer Well‐Being—A Review and Research Agenda
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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O conceito epicurista de kritêrion vinculado ao de enargeías e de kanôn
O presente artigo analisa o conceito epicurista de kritêrion dentro dos limites dos escritos remanescentes de Epicuro. Ele busca sondar o que efetivamente Epicuro disse ou quis dizer com esse termo.
Miguel Spinelli
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
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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Il porco e la maggiorana. Per una lettura epicurea del carme 13 di Catullo
In addition to a reminiscence of some epigrams written by the Epicurean Philodemus of Gadara, in Catullus 13 we can also recognize an allusion to some verses of Lucretius (6.973‑8), in which the marjoram unguentum is placed alongside the image of the ...
Piacenza, Nicola
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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In a pioneering study of 1934 Thomas Franklin Mayo was among the first to suggest the idea of an Epicurean « Renaissance » in England from the year 1650 onwards.
Line Cottegnies
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Schrödinger's Doctrine of Identity: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger's Thought
Ever since Erwin Schrödinger learned about Indian thought through Arthur Schopenhauer, it occupied a visible role in both his published writings and personal books. Schrödinger called for a “blood transfusion” of Indian thought into the West and, in one notebook, construed the Upaniṣadic slogan “Brahman = Atman” as the “closest thing to the truth ...
Thijs M. K. Latten
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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection
Lucretius sometimes speaks of the mind ‘projecting’ itself, echoing the Epicurean Greek technical term epibolē. The way in which he and other first-century BCE Epicureans use this concept, however, elevates it beyond anything we can find in Epicurus, and
David Sedley
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The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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