The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Epicurus, Eugene M. O'Connor (Translator)Series:Great Books in PhilosophyPublish date:1993-05-01Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9780879758103ISBN-10:879758104UPC:9780879758103Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCNPCHXJY3
The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
Epicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an independent state of mind and body, imperturbability, and reliance on sensory data as the true basis of knowledge.Epicurus (ca. 341-271 B.C.) founded one of the most famous and influential philosophical schools of antiquity. In these remains of his...
Series: Great Books in Philosophy
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9780879758103ISBN-10:879758104UPC:9780879758103Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCNPCHXJY3
EPICURUS (341 - 271 B.C.E.) was an Athenian philosopher of the Hellenistic period, who was born on the Aegean island of Samos off the coast of present-day Turkey. At age eighteen, he moved to Athens to complete a compulsory two-year term of military service and thereafter began studying philosophy under Nausiphanes of Teos. This teacher, at the time a follower of Democritus, proved to have...
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