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    Smith, Epicureanism, and the natural beauty of virtue.Zhang Jiangwei - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    Smith’s imagination of sociability and interpersonal relationships in commercial society carries a strong Epicurean tone. However, in terms of moral philosophy, Smith severely criticised Epicureanism and firmly defended the ‘natural beauty of virtue’ within the framework of sentimentalism (i.e. the existence of moral worth independent of pleasure and utility). He claimed that Epicureanism’s denial of the ‘natural beauty of virtue’ not only misunderstands the basis of moral judgement but also ignores people’s corresponding moral motives and the possibility of (...)
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    Epicureanism and scientific debates: antiquity and late reception.Francesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel & Francesco Verde (eds.) - 2023 - Leuven: Leuven University Press.
    Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically the contribution of (...)
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    Epicureanism and the Wrongness of Killing.Tim Burkhardt - 2020 - The Journal of Ethics 24 (2):177-192.
    This paper argues that Epicureanism about death is consistent with grounding the wrongness of killing in the interests of the victim. Both defenders and critics of Epicureanism should agree that, if we knew Epicureanism to be false, then we would have a moral reason not to kill people. We would have this reason because we would know that killing people harms them. And even Epicureans should agree that, given their evidence, Epicureanism could be false. Given that (...)
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  4. Epicureanism.Tim O'Keefe - 2009 - Acumen Publishing.
    This introduction to Epicureanism offers students and general readers a clear exposition of the central tenets of Epicurean philosophy, one of the dominant schools of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (c. 341–270 BCE), it held that for a human being the greatest good was to attain tranquility, free from fear and bodily pain, by seeking to understand the workings of the world and the limits of our desires. Tim O’Keefe provides an extended exegesis of the arguments (...)
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    Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction.Catherine Wilson - 2015 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
    Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today.In this Very Short Introduction, Catherine Wilson explains the key ideas of the School, comparing them with those of the rival Stoics (...)
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  6. Epicureanism: The Hobo Test.Brian Dougall - 2013 - Philosophy Now (98):21-24.
    Like a pack of cigarettes, a library’s philosophy section should have a warning label: “Something you learn here may ruin your life.” Only here can a flip through a book persuade someone to accept an idea without considering its repercussions. The bad side of philosophy that hardly anyone writes about, is that some philosophies cause people to become hobos. When I use the term ‘hobo’, I’m not referring to just any homeless person – that is, I’m not referring to a (...)
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  7. Epicureanism and Skepticism about Practical Reason.Christopher Frugé - 2020 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (2):195-208.
    Epicureans believe that death cannot harm the one who dies because they hold the existence condition, which states that a subject is able to be harmed only while they exist. I show that on one reading of this condition death can, in fact, make the deceased worse off because it is satisfied by the deprivation account of death’s badness. I argue that the most plausible Epicurean view holds the antimodal existence condition, according to which no merely possible state of affairs (...)
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  8. Epicureanism and utilitarianism: A reply to professor Lyons.Frederick Rosen - 2006 - Utilitas 18 (2):182-187.
    I am grateful to Professor Lyons for his comments on several aspects of Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill and to the Review Editor of Utilitas for inviting me to reply. I hope that Professor Lyons will not object to my first pointing out to the reader that the book consists mainly of a series of substantial chapters on philosophers who have not always been regarded as utilitarian thinkers, such as Hume, Smith and Helvétius, or have been interpreted as utilitarians (...)
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  9. Epicureanism – Yesterday and Today.Olivier Bloch - 2009 - Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2):483-495.
    This article presents a brief survey of the Epicurean doctrine, its general purpose, and its different aspects, and argues that, for all the historical differences involved, it still remains useful, relevant, and even necessary, in many respects for us today: the wholly immanent nature of Epicurean ideals (“the fourfold remedy”) and the materialism for which it provides a convincing model, even with its paradoxical “theology,” can serve as a means of resistance to the current “return of the religious” and the (...)
     
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    Epicureanism. By Tim O'Keefe.Robin Waterfield - 2011 - Heythrop Journal 52 (1):121-122.
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  11. The Epicureanism of Lucretius.Tim O'Keefe - 2022 - In David Konstan, Myrto Garani & Gretchen Reydams-Schils, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 143-158.
    What is distinctive about Lucretius’s version of Epicureanism? The answer might appear to be “nothing,” for two reasons. First, Epicureanism in general is doctrinally conservative, with followers of Epicurus claiming to follow his authority. Second, Lucretius claims to be merely transmitting the arguments of his beloved master Epicurus in a pleasing manner. I argue that these considerations do not prevent De Rerum Natura from presenting a distinct version of Epicureanism. Its arguments in physics are almost certainly drawn (...)
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    Epicureanism.Pierre-Marie Morel - 2018 - In Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. pp. 486–504.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Physics Cosmology and Anthropology Epistemology Ethics Conclusion Bibliography.
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    Rousseau on refined Epicureanism and the problem of modern liberty.Jared Holley - 2018 - European Journal of Political Theory 17 (4):411-431.
    This article argues that in order to understand the form of modern political freedom envisioned by Rousseau, we have to understand his theory of taste as refined Epicureanism. Rousseau saw the division of labour and corrupt taste as the greatest threats to modern freedom. He identified their cause in the spread of vulgar Epicureanism – the frenzied pursuit of money, vanity and sexual gratification. In its place, he advocated what he called ‘the Epicureanism of reason’, or refined (...)
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    Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity.James A. T. Lancaster - 2010 - Intellectual History Review 20 (2):291-292.
  15. The epicureanism.William Wallace - 1881 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 12:77-85.
     
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  16. Early Modern Accounts of Epicureanism.Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo - 2025 - In Jacob Klein & Nathan Powers, The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    We look at some interesting and important episodes in the life of early modern Epicureanism, focusing on natural philosophy. We begin with two early moderns who had a great deal to say about ancient Epicureanism: Pierre Gassendi and Ralph Cudworth. Looking at how Gassendi and Cudworth conceived of Epicureanism gives us a sense of what the early moderns considered important in the ancient tradition. It also points us towards three main themes of early modern Epicureanism in (...)
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    Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Antiquity and Late Reception – Vol. I: Language, Medicine, Meteorology.Francesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel & Francesco Verde (eds.) - 2023 - Leuven University Press.
    Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically the contribution of (...)
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  18. Epicureanism and Science.B. Farrington - 1954 - Scientia 48 (89):69.
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    Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity.John Henry - 2009 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2):415-418.
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    Epicureanism.David Konstan - 2003 - In Christopher Shields, The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 237–251.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Sources Physical Theory Ethics Knowledge and Perception Practice References and Recommended Reading.
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  21. Epicureanism: two collections of fragments and studies.Alfred Körte, Vincenzo De Falco & Metrodorus (eds.) - 1890 - New York: Garland.
     
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    Vignettes of early modern Epicureanism: Catherine Wilson: Epicureanism at the origins of modernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008, x+304pp, $65.00 HB.Antonia LoLordo - 2011 - Metascience 21 (3):679-680.
    Vignettes of early modern Epicureanism Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9566-9 Authors Antonia LoLordo, Department of Philosophy, 122 Cocke Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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  23. Epicureanism and Early Christianity.Ilaria L. E. Ramelli - 2020 - In Phillip Mitsis, Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism. Oxford Handbooks. pp. 582-612.
    Many fragments and testimonies in Usener’s collection, Epicurea, come from ancient Christian sources. This essay explores Patristic interest in Epicureanism, which is often critical, and sometimes imprecise or distorted, but tangible. It shows how the fading away of the availability and use of good sources on Epicureanism, along with the disappearance of the Epicurean school itself, brought about a progressive impoverishment and hostility among Christian authors with respect to Epicurus and Epicureanism. A comparison between the representation of (...)
     
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    (1 other version)Gassendi and Epicureanism.Saul Fisher - 2018 - In Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber & Carla Rita Palmerino, Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 106-143.
    As the premier early modern advocate of an Epicurean alternative to the prevailing neo-Scholastic framework of Aristotelianism, Pierre Gassendi promoted not only ancient but also innovative reasoning on behalf of atomism, probabilism, empiricism, psychological hedonism, social contractarianism, and a range of other stances associated with the philosophy of the Garden. Much commentary has focused on the extent to which Gassendi ‘baptizes’ Epicurean thought. Beyond this aspect of his Epicureanism are questions as to whether, and how, Gassendi is true to (...)
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    Philodemus’ Epicureanism.Elizabeth Asmis - 1987 - In Wolfgang Haase, Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. Philosophie. De Gruyter. pp. 2369-2406.
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    Epicureanism in the Confessions of St. Augustine.Dean Simpson - 1985 - Augustinian Studies 16:39-48.
  27. A dilemma for Epicureanism.Travis Timmerman - 2019 - Philosophical Studies 176 (1):241-257.
    Perhaps death’s badness is an illusion. Epicureans think so and argue that agents cannot be harmed by death when they’re alive nor when they’re dead. I argue that each version of Epicureanism faces a fatal dilemma: it is either committed to a demonstrably false view about the relationship between self-regarding reasons and well-being or it is involved in a merely verbal dispute with deprivationism. I first provide principled reason to think that any viable view about the badness of death (...)
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    Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola.Michelle T. Clarke - 2022 - Political Theory 50 (6):913-938.
    Who is Lucrezia, the mysterious woman at the center of Machiavelli’s comic play Mandragola? And why is she deemed “fit to govern a kingdom”? This article revisits these questions with attention to Mandragola’s sophisticated, and often irreverent, allusions to Roman source materials. While scholars have long recognized that Mandragola draws on Roman history and drama, its sustained engagement with Lucretian and Ovidian poetry has gone largely unnoticed. In what follows, I trace these allusions and show how Machiavelli uses them to (...)
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  29. Epicureanism About Death and Immortality.John Martin Fischer - 2006 - The Journal of Ethics 10 (4):355-381.
    In this paper I discuss some of Martha Nussbaum's defenses of Epicurean views about death and immortality. Here I seek to defend the commonsense view that death can be a bad thing for an individual against the Epicurean; I also defend the claim that immortality might conceivably be a good thing. In the development of my analysis, I make certain connections between the literatures on free will and death. The intersection of these two literatures can be illuminated by reference to (...)
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    Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity, by Catherine Wilson.E. Schliesser - 2010 - Mind 119 (474):535-539.
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    Epicureanism of Pierre Gassendi.Olga Theodorou - 2018 - Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (3):67-77.
    Pierre Gassend, or, as he is widely known, Gassendi, was a French materialist philosopher, physicist, astronomer, theologian and Catholic priest. He was the son of Antoine Gassend2 and Françoise Fabry, and was born on January 22nd in 1592 in Champtercier, a village of Provence, and died on October 24th in 1655 in Paris. He received his first education in the cities Digne and Riez and by the age of twelve he began his initiation to Catholicism. He belonged to the Franciscan (...)
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    Machiavelli, Epicureanism and the Ethics of Democracy.Christopher Holman - 2023 - Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 70 (174):53-81.
    Recent scholarship on the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli has demonstrated the extent to which the latter's republicanism is of a populist type, and a potentially important resource for contemporary democratic theory. Although work has been produced on the constitutional form of the Machiavellian republic, less effort has been made to articulate the theoretical assumptions upon which the advocacy of such a republic is ethically grounded. Here, I attempt to locate the democratic ethical imperative in the affirmation of a fundamental (...)
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  33. Epicureanism at the origins of modernity.Catherine Wilson - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of opprobrium by the Christian Fathers of the early Church, for its unflinching commitment to the absence of divine supervision and the (...)
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  34. Epicureanism.William Wallace - 1880
     
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    Epicureanism (G.) Roskam Live unnoticed (Λάθε βιώσας). On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine. (Philosophia Antiqua 111.) Pp. xii + 233. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Cased, €89, US$125. ISBN: 978-90-04-16171-. [REVIEW]Yasmina Benferhat - 2009 - The Classical Review 59 (2):393-.
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    Neo-epicureanism.Dimitris Vardoulakis - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (4):1013-1024.
    By looking at its history, this article emphasizes the importance of practical judgment for materialism. This sense of practical judgment is traced back to the function of phronesis in one of the ancient schools of materialism, namely, the Epicureans.
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    Epicureanism under the Roman Empire.John Ferguson - 1987 - In Wolfgang Haase, Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. Philosophie. De Gruyter. pp. 2257-2327.
  38. A happiness fit for organic bodies: La Mettrie's medical Epicureanism.Charles T. Wolfe - 2009 - In Neven Leddy & Avi Lifschitz, Epicurus in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. pp. 69--83.
    A chapter on the specifically 'medical' Epicureanism of La Mettrie, connecting his materialist approach to mind-body issues and his hedonistic ethics.
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  39. Epicureanism, Extrinsic Value, and Prudence.Karl Ekendahl & Jens Johansson - 2015 - In Michael Cholbi, Immortality and the Philosophy of Death. New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
  40. Thoreau’s Walden: Epicureanism or Stoicism?Toby Svoboda - 2021 - The Concord Saunterer 29 (1):132-146.
    This paper argues against Pierre Hadot's view that Thoreau in Walden displays Epicurean and Stoic traits in roughly equal proportion. Of the two schools, he is much closer to the latter. However, the similarities between Thoreau and the Stoic are practical or generic. In terms of ethical practices, Thoreau exhibits many of the qualities found in the Stoic school. However, the theoretical discourse used to justify those practices is different in each case. If one is to say that Thoreau is (...)
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  41. Epicureanism and Early Modern Naturalism.Antonia LoLordo - 2011 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (4):647 - 664.
    It is often suggested that certain forms of early modern philosophy are naturalistic. Although I have some sympathy with this description, I argue that applying the category of naturalism to early modern philosophy is not useful. There is another category that does most of the work we want the category of naturalism to do ? one that, unlike naturalism, was actually used by early moderns.
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  42. (1 other version)Epicureanism, Charvaka and Consumerism: A Search for Philosophy of Happiness.Desh Raj Sirswal - 2020 - Interdisciplinary Studies.
    Epicurus was a Greek philosopher interested in pleasure or pursuit of it more than other ideals. He said, "No pleasure in itself is a bad thing, but the things that produce certain pleasures involve disturbances many times greater than the pleasures themselves." Epicurus tells us that the knowledge of which pleasures are good for us is wisdom. While this sometimes led to a negative view of his philosophy, in many regions of the world today the reality is that his thinking (...)
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    Epicureanism and Horace.Philip Merlan - 1949 - Journal of the History of Ideas 10 (1/4):445.
  44. Epicureanism.Thomas A. Blackson - 2016 - In Tom Angier, Chad Meister & Charles Taliaferro, The History of Evil in Antiquity: 2000 Bce to 450 Ce. Routledge.
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    The Social Contract in Epicureanism.Elizabeth Asmis - 2024 - Apeiron 57 (4):583-610.
    Epicurus held that justice came into being when individuals made compacts with one another to secure the benefit that comes from not harming one another. He also distinguished just laws from those that are not just; and he recognized a virtue of justice. This much is well supported by our evidence. There is also much that is controversial. At the very basis, there is disagreement on his conception of justice. There are also basic questions on how compacts are related to (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism.James Warren (ed.) - 2009 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and politics. The international team of contributors includes scholars who have produced innovative and original (...)
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  47. Epicureanism, Death, and the Good Life.Glenn Braddock - 2000 - Philosophical Inquiry 22 (1-2):47-66.
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    The Epicureanism of Titus Pomponius Atticus. [REVIEW]W. S. Watt - 1952 - The Classical Review 2 (1):49-49.
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    Epicureanism and euthanasia.Jeremy W. Skrzypek - 2024 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 45 (6):433-446.
    If Epicurean arguments for the harmlessness of death are successful, then they also successfully undermine a common justification for physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the termination of hopeless pregnancies that I call the ‘Mercy Intuition', according to which, by ending the life of a suffering loved one for whom there is little to no chance of recovery, one is relieving that person of her suffering, and thus providing a great benefit to her. For, if death is not a harm to the (...)
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    Of asses and nymphs: Machiavelli, Platonic theology and Epicureanism in Florence.Miguel Vatter - 2019 - Intellectual History Review 29 (1):101-127.
    Is Machiavelli an Epicurean in his political and religious thought? Recent scholarship has identified him as the foremost representative of Epicureanism in Renaissance Florence. In particular, his incomplete epic poem, The Ass, is read as an expression of his adherence to Lucretian naturalism. This article offers a new reading of the poem and shows that its teaching reveals that Machiavelli is closer to a Platonic variant of classical naturalism linked with the idea of a natural virtue modelled on the (...)
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