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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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Epicureanism after the generation of its founders has been characterised as dogmatic, uncreative and static. But this volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demonstrates the persistent interplay in the school between historical and contemporary influences from outside the school and a commitment to the founders' authority. The interplay begins with Epicurus himself, who made arresting claims of intellectual independence, yet also admitted to taking over important ideas from predecessors, and displayed more receptivity than is usually thought to those of his contemporaries. The same principles of autonomy and openness figure importantly in the three major areas of focus in these essays: theology, politics and the emotions.

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

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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul--an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind so lucidly and authoritatively that specialists and nonspecialists alike will find her book rewarding. In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is in fact a philosophy of mind, especially in the treatment of such topics as perception, thought, and action.

Philosophy of mind --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Stoics. --- Ethics --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History. --- Epicurus. --- Epicurus --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epikouros --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ

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"This book casts new light on Epicurus' socio-political philosophy through a careful analysis of his arguments. It also shows how the ideal of an 'unnoticed life' was received during the later history of Epicureanism and how it occasionally occurs in ancient Latin poetry."--Jacket.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy) --- Conduct of life. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Epicuriens --- Morale pratique --- Morale ancienne --- Epicurus --- Solitude. --- Ethics --- Epicurisme --- Praktische filosofie --- Receptie. --- Morale ancienne. --- Morale pratique. --- Morale --- Épicuriens. --- Ethics. --- Ethics, Greek --- Ancient ethics --- Seclusion --- Loneliness --- Privacy --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Philosophical counseling --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epikouros --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Ethics - Greece. --- Épicuriens.

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Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy presents 18 essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Skepticism. --- Stoics. --- Epicurus. --- Philosophie ancienne --- Scepticisme --- Stoïcisme --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Skepticism --- Stoics --- Ethics --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Epicurus --- Ἐπίκουρος