Epicurus and democritean ethics: an archaeology of "ataraxia"
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much recent scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century B.C. ...
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- ISBN13 9780521813693
- ISBN10 0521813697
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 241
- Colección Cambridge classical studies
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Tela
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Filosofía AntiguaEpicurus and democritean ethics: an archaeology of "ataraxia"
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much recent scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century B.C. ...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much recent scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century B.C. philosopher Democritus, but this study finds that there is much in his ethical thought which can be traced to Democritus. It also finds important influences on Epicurus in Democritus' fourth-century followers such as Anaxarchus and Pyrrho, and in Epicurus' disagreements with his own Democritean teacher Nausiphanes. The result is not only a fascinating reconstruction of a lost tradition, but also an important contribution to the philosophical interpretation of Epicureanism, bearing especially on its ideal of tranquillity and on the relation of ethics to physics.