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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Epicureanism"”.
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… within the context of the revival of early-modem Epicureanism and atomism in England as well as Europe. Thereby, it not only attempts to set Hobbes's understanding of Epicureanism in the general context of its reception in the seventeenth century but also to explore the specific Epicurean elements …
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Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions
… the first century B.C., attempted to modernize Epicureanism by integrating poetry into its doctrines. His goals in his $\pi\varepsilon\rho\grave{\iota} \pi o \iota\eta\mu\acute{\alpha}\tau\omega\nu$ were to refute carefully Epicurus' rejection of poetry as unfit for his followers, and give …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman audience. I explore the cultural resonance of the social metaphors Lucretius uses to explain …
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Philodemus on Rhetoric books 1 and 2 : translation and exegetical essays
… citations from the works of the Founders of Epicureanism in support of his own views.
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher powers should be avoided. However, the two poets employ a number of similar devices in the service …
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Secular singleness and Paul's response in 1 Corinthians 7
… century urban centres such as Corinth, and that Epicureanism provided the prevailing ethical justification for a man to decline marriage and remain single. The thesis then argues that reading Paul's response to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 7 in light of such an Epicurean-based secular …
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Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… and happiness according to Pyrrhonic Scepticism, Epicureanism and Stoicism will be discussed. Three objections to eudaimonism will then be presented. According to the first objection raised by the Kantian John Hare, eudaimonism is a self-centred theory which posits an improper relation of …
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ‘le hobbisme le plus parfait’: An historical and philosophical study of Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism
… between Pufendorfian sociability and Hobbesian Epicureanism in order to show that Hobbes’s natural law critics were in fact no better than Hobbes; a line of argument that Rousseau also pursued in the Social Contract. In addition, Rousseau’s invocation of Hobbes was intended to support his …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… in early modern European theorists influenced by Epicureanism. The mundane perspective is a way of looking at and talking about political activity, one which is critical of the lofty self-conceptions and aspirations most political communities create for themselves, instead encouraging attention to …
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Epicurus' legacy: succession and continuity in the institutional history of the Athenian Garden
This dissertation explores the historical reality of the Epicurean school’s flagship Athenian community (the “Garden") as an intellectual institution. In particular, it investigates the philosophical and pragmatic considerations that determined the approach Epicurus and his successors adopted to …