Download or read book Conceptions of Happiness written by Ignacio L. Götz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. This book explores many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers.
Download or read book Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts written by Jill Kraye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains 40 new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The anthology is designed to be used in conjunction with The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, in which all of these texts are discussed. The works, originally written in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek, cover such topics as: concepts of man, Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and Epicurean ethics, scholastic political philosophy, theories of princely and republican government in Italy and northern European political thought. Each text is supplied with an introduction and a guide to further reading.
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism written by Phillip Mitsis and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of the philosophy of Epicurus (340-271 BCE) and then traces Epicurean influences throughout the Western tradition. It is an unmatched resource for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicureanism's powerful arguments about death, happiness, and the nature of the material world.
Download or read book Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy written by Antonia LoLordo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science.
Download or read book Epicurus An Introduction written by J. M. Rist and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-06-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Rist's account of Epicurus mediates between the extremes of approval and opposition traditionally accorded to him, and he emerges as an ideologist, a pragmatic philosopher whose most notable achievement was to reject the prevailing social ethos of Hellenism and assert the rights of the individual against those of the community or state.
Download or read book A History of Ancient Philosophy III written by Giovanni Reale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reale's volume supplies a synthesis previously lacking--a synthesis in the historical treatment of the great philosophies of the Hellenistic Age: the Academy, the Peripatos, the Stoa, the Garden of Epicurus, Scepticism, and Eclecticism. Reale's extensive and fully documented treatment of the major schools of the period is unified by his thesis that the ethics developed by these major schools were secular faiths that sprang from intuitions about the meaning of life first emotionally grasped and then systematically and rationally developed. It is for this reason that the teachings of these schools endured almost continuously for about 500 years. It is for the same reason that the founders of the schools were considered gods and were actually, in a certain sense, the saints of secular faiths and religions. In this book, Reale traces the decline of the philosophical schools of the classical period, the post-Platonic Academy, the post-Aristotelian Peripatos, and the minor socratic schools. The destruction of the polis and the incapacity of the schools to address the concerns of the new age were the fertile grounds from which the new schools developed. The Garden of Epicurus, the Porch of Zeno, and the sceptical movement initiated by Pyrrho form the core of the volume. The volume contains a select bibliography and an index of names and Greek terms, as well as an index of citations.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism written by James Warren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How to Be an Epicurean written by Catherine Wilson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lectures on Ancient Philosophy written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Felix Meiner Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mit diesem Band werden Cassirers 1935 in Oxford und 1942 in New Haven gehaltene Vorlesungen zur antiken Philosophie erstmals für Forschung und Studium zugänglich gemacht. Cassirer zeigt, wie sich in der griechischen Kultur ein neuer – ein theoretischer, philosophischer – Denkstil entfaltet, der den bis dahin vorherrschenden mythischen Denkstil ablöst. Die Vorlesungen richten sich an Philosophiestudierende und geben deshalb einen breiten, einführenden Überblick über die Denkentwicklung von den Ioniern über Platon und Aristoteles bis zu den Neuplatonikern. Sie behandeln aber auch Fragen und Begriffe, die nach Cassirers Auffassung bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein bedeutsam geblieben sind, weil auf ihnen das moderne wissenschaftliche wie philosophische Denken fußt. Zudem legt Cassirer Wert auf den Nachweis, dass die vielfältigen – neuen – philosophischen Begriffe in den Lehren der antiken Denker eine Einheit bilden, die von einem bestimmten Prinzip des Denkens getragen und bestimmt ist. Besonders interessant sind die Vorlesungen über Platon und Aristoteles. Cassirer schätzte Platons Ideenlehre sehr; darüber hinaus setzt er sich hier auch kritisch mit historischen Platonauslegungen auseinander. Die Vorlesung über Aristoteles wiederum stellt den einzigen größeren diesem Philosophen gewidmeten Text von Cassirers Hand dar.
Download or read book Rabbinic literature and Greco Roman philosophy written by Henry Albert Fischel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1973 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism written by Phillip Mitsis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Stoic and Epicurean written by Robert Drew Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion written by J. P. F. Wynne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.
Download or read book Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories written by Charles Edwin Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura written by Don Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.
