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Availability:In StockContributor:Epicurus, Lucretius, Spencer A. Klavan (Editor)Publish date:2025-01-07Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Gateway EditionsISBN-13:9781684515165ISBN-10:1684515165UPC:9781684515165Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCTAA7JDD8
Gateway to the Epicureans: Epicurus, Lucretius, and Their Modern Heirs
Two and half centuries ago, John Adams complained, "Our modern philosophers are all the low grovelling disciples of Epicurus." That's even truer today. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is--acknowledged or not--the source of secular "woke" liberalism. In his own time, Epicurus was a fringe thinker. He and his few followers speculated about how invisibly small entities of indivisible...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Gateway EditionsISBN-13:9781684515165ISBN-10:1684515165UPC:9781684515165Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCTAA7JDD8
Spencer A. Klavan is a scholar, writer, and podcaster. A graduate of Yale, he earned his doctorate in ancient Greek literature from Oxford University. He is the author of the acclaimed bookHow to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises and the editor of Gateway to the Stoics. The host of the Young Heretics podcast and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books, he has written for...
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