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The Self‐as‐Philosopher: A Schema‐Informed Reading of Philosophy as a Way of Life
Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 174-188, April 2026.Abstract This article offers an original reading of the process and outcomes of training in philosophy as a way of life. By drawing on research and theory from the fields of cognitive psychology and adult learning, it argues that the transformative effects frequently ascribed to the practice of philosophy as a way of life can helpfully be ...
Joel Owen
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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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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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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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, 2018 Although she seemed to have everything, Edna\u27s great dissatisfaction in Chopin\u27s novel, The Awakening (1 899/198 1). Led to suicide. Epicurus might have been able to help her.
Morse, Jane Fowler
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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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The Relationship between Suffering and Pleasure in Epicurus’ Thought: A Reinterpretation of a Theory in Philosophical Psychotherapy [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsEpicurus, the fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher, founded his system on the dialectical resolution of the relationship between "pleasure" and "suffering." Contrary to popular interpretations, pleasure in his thought is not hedonistic indulgence but the
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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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Epicurus' insufficient arguments for sovereign freedom [PDF]
, 2011 This essay analyzes and criticizes Epicurus’ arguments for sovereign freedom. Epicurus argues for a type of libertarianism in which one is the ultimate and sovereign source of his or her actions.
Swob, Alexander
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