The Epicurean Philosophers

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781541672628

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How to Be an Epicurean by Catherine Wilson Pdf

A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time: it's a means to live a good life. Although modern conveniences and scientific progress have significantly improved our quality of life, many of the problems faced by ancient Greeks -- love, money, family, politics -- remain with us in new forms. To overcome these obstacles, the Epicureans adopted a philosophy that promoted reason, respect for the natural world, and reverence for our fellow humans. By applying this ancient wisdom to a range of modern problems, from self-care routines and romantic entanglements to issues of public policy and social justice, Wilson shows us how we can all fill our lives with purpose and pleasure.

Author : John Gaskin
Publisher : Everyman Paperbacks
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0460876074

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The Epicurean Philosophers by John Gaskin Pdf

Epicureanism theorizes an infinite universe of moving particles, with no divine purpose and no life after death. Happiness depends on simple needs satisfied to provide tranquility of mind. This volume presents a comprehensive collection of the surviving works and wise sayings of Epicurus together with the great systematic account of Epicurean natural science in Lucretius's ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE.

Author : Tim O'Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139446242

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Epicurus on Freedom by Tim O'Keefe Pdf

In this 2005 book, Tim O'Keefe reconstructs the theory of freedom of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–271/0 BCE). Epicurus' theory has attracted much interest, but our attempts to understand it have been hampered by reading it anachronistically as the discovery of the modern problem of free will and determinism. O'Keefe argues that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations. His original and provocative book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in Hellenistic philosophy.

Author : Epicurus
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486845104

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The Philosophy of Epicurus by Epicurus Pdf

There's nothing new about wanting to live a mindful, simple life, and these writings by an ancient Greek sage recommend embracing sources of lasting satisfaction, such as friendship and philosophical inquiry.

Author : David Swift
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443809030

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The Epicurean Theory of Mind, Meaning and Knowledge by David Swift Pdf

Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus provided some of our most cherished assumptions about physics and ethics. He postulated an infinite universe made exclusively of atoms and void. He also treated slaves and women as equals and defined our standards of pleasure and luxury. Now David Swift turns to Epicurus for help with another significant mystery: the scientific explanation of mind. Using Epicurean ideas that our minds are in our chests and, perhaps even more radically, that meaning is understood in our sense organs he re-examines and reinterprets the works of philosophers like Descartes, Locke, Kant and Mill and scientists such as Pavlov, Freud, Skinner and Rogers. Seen in the light of the Epicurean concept, Renaissance philosophy and classic scientific psychology validate a surprisingly consistent and coherent scientific explanation of behaviour. The mechanisms of meaning, knowledge, learning and remembering are explained in terms of biological reflexes. The secrets of love, hate and loyalty are revealed as non-verbal knowledge only accessible as feelings. And success, failure, criminal and other behaviours are shown to be the results of learned experience not genetic predisposition. At last we have the possibility of a plausible biologically-based general psychological theory.

Author : Haris Dimitriadis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387352890

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Epicurus And The Pleasant Life by Haris Dimitriadis Pdf

The idea that happiness is a choice accessible to all is far from new; the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus developed the Natural Philosophy of life over two thousand years ago, providing practical, contemporary guidelines to finding meaning and happiness. Unlike Plato, who valued the divine logic above all, Epicurus argued that the pursuit of ideals produced by logic alone leads to inner conflict, cognitive dissonance, dissatisfaction, and even depression. He suggested that by first embracing our natural desires, then using logic to determine which choices will increase pleasure over time, and using our will to take action, we could learn and change, and achieve happiness. Join the author Haris Dimitriadis on a journey through the history of philosophical thought, as well as an in-depth look at the modern neuroscience, psychology, and astrophysics, and discover why the ancient Epicurean Philosophy of Nature matters as much today as it did two thousand and three hundred years ago!

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191553523

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Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity by Catherine Wilson Pdf

This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of opprobrium by the Christian Fathers of the early Church, for its unflinching commitment to the absence of divine supervision and the finitude of life, the Epicurean philosophy surfaced again in the period of the Scientific Revolution, when it displaced scholastic Aristotelianism. Both modern social contract theory and utilitarianism in ethics were grounded in its tenets. Catherine Wilson shows how the distinctive Epicurean image of the natural and social worlds took hold in philosophy, and how it is an acknowledged, and often unacknowledged presence in the writings of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, Boyle, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley. With chapters devoted to Epicurean physics and cosmology, the corpuscularian or "mechanical" philosophy, the question of the mortality of the soul, the grounds of political authority, the contested nature of the experimental philosophy, sensuality, curiosity, and the role of pleasure and utility in ethics, the author makes a persuasive case for the significance of materialism in seventeenth-century philosophy without underestimating the depth and significance of the opposition to it, and for its continued importance in the contemporary world. Lucretius's great poem, On the Nature of Things, supplies the frame of reference for this deeply-researched inquiry into the origins of modern philosophy. .

Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139828161

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The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren Pdf

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.

Author : Phillip Mitsis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197522004

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Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism by Phillip Mitsis Pdf

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important subsequent influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Such a detailed and comprehensive study of Epicureanism is especially timely given the tremendous current revival of interest in Epicurus and his rivals, the Stoics. The thirty-one contributions in this volume offer an unmatched resource for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicurus' powerful arguments about happiness, death, and the nature of the material world and our place in it. At the same time, his arguments are carefully placed in the context of ancient and subsequent disputes, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring Epicurean arguments against a wide range of opponents--from Platonists, Aristotelians and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such important contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams. The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two fascinating and ongoing sources of Epicurean arguments, the Herculaneum papyri and the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Our understanding of Epicureanism is continually being enriched by these new sources of evidence and the contributors to this volume have been able to make use of them in presenting the most current understanding of Epicurus's own views. By the same token, the second half of the volume is devoted to the extraordinary influence of Epicurean doctrines, often either neglected or misunderstood, in literature, political thinking, scientific innovation, personal conceptions of freedom and happiness, and in philosophy generally. Taken together, the contributions in this volume offer the most comprehensive and detailed account of Epicurus and Epicureanism available in English.

Author : Jeffrey Fish,Kirk R. Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194785

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Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition by Jeffrey Fish,Kirk R. Sanders Pdf

Brings together the work of leading classicists and philosophers in order to show the vitality and development of Epicureanism after Epicurus, and especially the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004396753

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides three-dozen studies of nearly 2500 continuous years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates as innovative intellectual, moral exemplar, and singular Athenian.

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199688326

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Epicureanism by Catherine Wilson Pdf

This very short introudction corrects the prevalent view of Epicureanism that often conjures up ideas of tasty delights and hedonism. Wilson explains the philosophical and scientific ideas of Epicurus and his followers and the legacy of Epicureanism on later European thought.

Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134523344

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Epicurean Tradition by Howard Jones Pdf

First published in 1992. Epicureanism has had a long and complex history. This book is the first to chronicle this history, from its beginnings in Greece in the fourth century BC to its role in the development of philosophy and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Divided equally between the classical and post-classical worlds, The Epicurean Tradition is a notable contribution to classical scholarship and to the history of ideas.

Author : Angela Longo,Daniela Patrizia Taormina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107124219

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Plotinus and Epicurus by Angela Longo,Daniela Patrizia Taormina Pdf

Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.

Author : Whitney Jennings Oates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : OCLC:61585250

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Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers. -- by Whitney Jennings Oates Pdf