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, 2020 Greco-Roman meteorology will be described in four overlapping developments. In the archaic period, astro-meteorological calendars were written down, and one appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days; such calendars or almanacs originated thousands of years ...
Johnson, Monte
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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]
, 2017 : Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.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]
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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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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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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Psychological Universals in the Study of Happiness: From Social Psychology to Epicurean Philosophy [PDF]
, 2019 Within the framework of Positive Psychology and Needing Theories, this article reviews cultural practices or perceptions regarding what happiness is and how it can be achieved.
Euler, Sasha S.
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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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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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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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