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Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
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An Archaeology of Ataraxia
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521034456
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.10.2006
Seiten:
256
Autor:
James Warren
Gewicht:
366 g
Format:
216x140x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
James Warren is Assistant Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
This 2002 book explores the origins of the Epicurean philosophical system in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus and ataraxia; 1. Introducing the Democriteans; 2. Democritus' ethics and atomist psychologies; 3. Anaxarchus' moral stage; 4. Pyrrho and Timon: inhuman indifference; 5. Polystratus and Epicurean pigs; 6. Hecataeus of Abdera's instructive ethnography; 7. Nausiphanes' compelling rhetoric; Conclusion: Epicurus and Democriteanism: determinism, scepticism and ethics; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.