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History of philosophy --- Epicurus --- Influence --- -Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Influence. --- -Influence --- Epikuros --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epicurus - Influence

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Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch's polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch's own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch's own works and from others authors) that cast a new light on the text.

Ethics, Ancient. --- Ancient ethics --- Epicurus. --- Plutarch. --- Epicurus --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epikouros --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Ethics, Ancient

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Atomic swerve (Philosophy) --- Free will and determinism --- History --- Epicurus --- History. --- Epicurus. --- Swerve (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Atomic swerve (Philosophy) - History --- Free will and determinism - History

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This collection makes available in English twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar Professor Jacques Brunschwig. The essays deal with problems arising in the texts and doctrines of the three major philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism. The author's strategy is to focus on some specific problem and then to enlarge the conclusion of his discussion so as to reformulate or reassess some more important issue. The main subjects tackled are: problems in Epicurean cosmology and linguistic theory; aspects of Stoic logic, ontology and theology; the history of Scepticism; and analysis of some of the conceptual tools used by the Sceptics in their anti-dogmatic arguments.

Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Stoics --- Ethics --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Epicurus --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Stoics. --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy). --- Epicurus. --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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The ethical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-271 B.C.) is commonly taken to be narrowly egoistic, and there is ample evidence in his writings to support this view—for example, in his maxims on friendship, his emphasis on the utility of friends and his continual effort to link friendship and pleasure. By means of a comprehensive and penetrating examination of the main elements of Epicurean ethics Phillip Mitsis forces us to reevaluate this widely misunderstood figure in the history of philosophy. Measuring Epicurean doctrines against both their ancient and modern alternatives, Mitsis argues that Epicurus' hedonism, when properly understood in its original philosophical context, is a complex and significant ethical option.Mitsis shows that Epicurus perceived, and brought forward in his writings, a series of conflicts between rival, though individually well founded, claims. Epicurus was ultimately unable to resolve these conflicts, Mitsis says, and therefore the Epicurean "system" cannot be regarded as a consistent whole. Looking closely at the surviving ancient evidence, Mitsis reconstructs the wider theoretical framework of particular Epicurean arguments and proposes new interpretations of Epicurus' accounts of pleasure, human action and responsibility, the virtues, and altruism. Woven through the exposition and criticism of Epicurean positions are illuminating references to later moral philosophers, from Hobbes and Mill to contemporary figures.

-Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Ethics, Ancient --- Ancient ethics --- Epicurus --- Epikuros --- Ethics. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Ethics --- Ethics [Ancient ] --- Epicurus - Ethics. --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy