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Glad to be alive: How we can compare a person's existence and her non‐existence in terms of what is better or worse for this person

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 1-21, March 2024.
Abstract This paper defends the claim that if a person P exists, there can be true positive comparisons between P's existence and P's never having existed at all in terms of what is better or worse for P. If correct, this view will have significant implications for various fundamental issues in population ethics.
Christian Piller
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Was epicurus a buddhist? An examination and critique of the theories of negative happiness in buddha and epicurus

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2010
Comparisons betw western philosophies are uncommon and this, among other things, hinders global philosophical discourse. Thus, in this essay I want to compare the philosophies of the Buddha and Epicurus for similarities, particular in regard to what I ...
Adam Barkman
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Montrer le corps : prouver le philosophe ? Le corps des philosophes dans la statuaire antique

Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2016
After recalling the conditions of preservation and transmission of statues of Greek philosophers, the article tries in a first time to question the criteria used to identify the philosophical typein ancient statuary (seated, beard and clothing), before ...
Nicolas Davieau
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Epicuro: tranquilidade da prudência

Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 2017
Apresentamos as linhas gerais da teoria epicurista tentando dar consistência ao conceito de ataraxia como meio de encontrar quer o conhecimento, quer a felicidade, e como isso se reflecte na vida em comunidade.
João Emanuel Diogo
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EPICURUS’ SECOND REMEDY: “DEATH IS NOTHING TO US”

Akroterion, 2012
<p>Cowards die many times before their deaths;<br /> The valiant never taste of death but once. <br /> Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, <br /> It seems to me most strange that men should fear; <br /> Seeing that ...
P.E. Bjarnason
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Epicuro e o tema da amizade: a philía vinculada ao érôs da tradição e ao êthos cívico da pólis

Princípios, 2011
Central to the so-called ethical doctrine of Epicurus, the theme of friendship in this paper is analyzed under three aspects: a) in regards to its link to the traditional principles (the so-called golden rule) with which several cultures have sought to ...
Miguel Spinelli
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Epicureism or a Philosophy of Pleasure [PDF]

Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2011
In this article I intent to go through the Epicurean thought and the role it plays in the concrete life of man. In this endeavour, I shall use some of Epicurus’ maxims, and also The Poem of Nature, written by Lucretius, and thought up in the spirit of ...
George COLANG
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"A CADEIRA DE TRÊS DE RODAS DE EPICURO" DE NORMAN WENTWORTH DEWITT

Kínesis
Tradução do artigo de Norman Wentworth DeWitt intitulado "Epicurus’ Three-Wheeled Chair", CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY, com permissão da University of Chicago Press. 
Rogério Lopes dos Santos
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Lucrezio interpreta Epicuro: Kant e il piacere, il sublime, la natura

Itinera, 2014
The dissertation aims at uncovering the following topics: ethics, nature and sublime. In particular, it focuses on the above topics in relation to the theories of Epicurus and Immanuel Kant.
Marco Beccalli
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