The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism
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This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and politics. The international team of contributors includes scholars who have produced innovative and original research in various areas of Epicurean thought and they have produced essays which are accessible and of interest to philosophers, classicists, and anyone concerned with the diversity and preoccupations of Epicurean philosophy and the state of academic research in this field. The volume emphasises the interrelation of the different areas of the Epicureans' philosophical interests while also drawing attention to points of interpretative difficulty and controversy.
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Diogenes of Apollonia found in breathing the 'significant evidence' that both humans and other animals possessed intelligence.
“That animal breathing expressed the intelligence, and the intelligibility, of the universe was suggested by Diogenes of Apollonia, who found in breathing (ἀναπνέοντα) the 'significant evidence' (μεγάλα σημεῖα) that both humans and other animals possessed intelligence (νόησις).20”
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“Sorajbi emphasizes particularly the role of Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Epicureans in turning rationality into a necessary and sufficient condition for moral standing (on the Epicureans’ views about justice, see Brown, 2009).”
BackgroundScience Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy
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Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure
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Tradition and Innovation in theKosmos–Polis Analogy
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The Good Poem According to Philodemus
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The Stoics on Virtue and Happiness
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Contemplative withdrawal in the Hellenistic age
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Aristotle on Virtue and Happiness
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Ordering the Universe in Speech
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Ancient Eudaimonism and Modern Morality
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Aristotle’sCategories7 Adopts Plato’s View of Relativity
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Heroic-Idyllic Philosophizing: Nietzsche and the Epicurean Tradition
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Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy
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Common Ground in Lucretius’De Rerum Natura
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The Stoics’ Ethical Psychology
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Prosecuting Epicurus in the Emperor Julian's Court: A Reading of Himerius Oration 3
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“7 On Epicurus’s activities in Athens, see Clay 2009, 9–28.”
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The Hedonism of Eudoxus of Cnidus
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Diógenes Laércio, livro X: Epicuro - Notas Preliminares e Tradução
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Lucretius and the Philosophical Use of Literary Persuasion
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Numenius on Intellect, Soul, and the Authority of Plato
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Harmonics as Theological Paradigm in Proclus
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Porphyry’sCommentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics
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Musical Imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen
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The Music of the Virtues in Late Ancient Platonism
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Where is the Harm in Dying Prematurely? An Epicurean Answer
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Critical Responses to the Most Difficult Textual Problem in Lucretius
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In and Out of the Stoa: Diogenes Laertius on Zeno
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The Platonic Soul, from the Early Academy to the First Century ce
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A Tribute to a Hero: Marx’s Interpretation of Epicurus in his Dissertation
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Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought
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Theophrastus and the Authority of thede Sensibus
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Augustine’s Development on Testimonial Knowledge
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Ethics in Plotinus and His Successors
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Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body
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Reading the ‘Implied Author’ in Lucretius’De Rerum Natura
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Introduction: Authorship and Authority in Ancient Philosophy
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Rhythm in a Sinuous Stanza: The Anatomy and Acoustic Contour of the Latin Alcaic
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“—Robert Von Hallberg 2008, 1154 I have made no attempt to establish any correlation between musicality and content.”
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Alexander of Aphrodisias and Musical Models for Ontological Enquiries
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Pseudo-Archytas and theCategories
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The Sensory Ecology of Collisions and Entrapment
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Physiologia medicans: the Epicurean Road to Happiness
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Memory, the Orators, and the Public in Fourth-century bc Athens
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Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject
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Authority and the Dialectic of Socrates
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A Superannuated Student: Aristotle and Authority in the Academy
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Touch, Taste, and Magnetoreception
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Hidup Bahagia? —Etika Epikuros
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Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
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Memory and Recollection in Plato’s Philebus: Use and Definitions
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O paradoxo da justiça em Epicuro
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“To explain what that means, allow a bit of background (also see Strodach, 2012; Warren, 2009).”
BackgroundThe Rising and Setting Soul in Lucretius,De Rerum Natura3
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The Emergence of Platonic and Aristotelian Authority in the First Century BCE
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Words, Deeds, and Lovers of Truth in Aristotle
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Leaving the Garden: Al-Rāzī and Nietzsche as Wayward Epicureans
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Epicurus and the Epicureans on Ethics
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“The Deep-Sticking Boundary Stone”
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The Architectural Representation of theKosmosfrom Varro to Hadrian
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Economies of Memory in Greek Tragedy
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Philosophy and Science
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- Epicureanism, Hellenistic philosophy, Epicurean physics, Epicurean epistemology, Epicurean psychology, Epicurean ethics
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