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#A9207W --- Epicurus --- -Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Influence --- -Influence --- Epikuros --- Influence. --- Ἐπίκουρος

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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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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

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Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its intellectual vitality.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy) --- Atheism --- Philosophy --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Irreligion --- Religion --- Secularism --- Theism --- Philosophy, Ancient --- History --- Epicurus. --- Epicurus --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epikouros --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- France --- Intellectual life

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General ethics --- Epicurus --- Pleasure. --- Plaisir --- Epicurus. --- Pleasure --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Algemene ethiek. --- Epicurus, --- Épicure (0341-0270 av. J.-C.) --- Morale