James Warren

Epicurus and Democritean Ethics

An Archaeology of Ataraxia
Herausgeber: Hunter, R. Lanny; Osborne, R. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2002 book explores the origins of the Epicurean philosophical system in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780521034456
• ISBN-10: 0521034450
• Artikelnr.: 22484401

Autorenporträt

James Warren is Assistant Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus and ataraxia
1. Introducing the Democriteans
2. Democritus' ethics and atomist psychologies
3. Anaxarchus' moral stage
4. Pyrrho and Timon: inhuman indifference
5. Polystratus and Epicurean pigs
6. Hecataeus of Abdera's instructive ethnography
7. Nausiphanes' compelling rhetoric
Conclusion: Epicurus and Democriteanism: determinism, scepticism and ethics
Bibliography
Index locorum
General index.