This new introduction into Epicurus' practical ethics and politics provides an overview of Epicurus' attitudes towards political, religious and cultural traditions. Emphasising his claim that philosophy is an art of living that helps people to achieve individual happiness, the b…
"Ningún otro filósofo de la Antigüedad ha sido tan maltratado y trivializado por una tradición exegética hostil como EPICURO (ca. 341-270 a.C.). El presente estudio de CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL revisa críticamente el hedonismo epicúreo, filosofía postaristotélica que contempla el desco…
A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
"Plutarch's De latenter uiuendo 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…
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 strate…
The art of happiness
by Strodach, George K., Epicurus, Klein, Daniel Martin
fromPenguin classics