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The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much recent scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century B.C. philosopher Democritus, but this study finds that there is much in his ethical thought which can be traced to Democritus. It also finds important influences on Epicurus in Democritus' fourth-century followers such as Anaxarchus and Pyrrho, and in Epicurus' disagreements with his own Democritean teacher Nausiphanes. The result is not only a fascinating reconstruction of a lost tradition, but also an important contribution to the philosophical interpretation of Epicureanism, bearing especially on its ideal of tranquillity and on the relation of ethics to physics.
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- Author/s Warren, James
- ISBN13 9780521813693
- ISBN10 0521813697
- Pages 241
- Collection Cambridge classical studies
- Published 2002
- Language English
Epicurus and democritean ethics: an archaeology of "ataraxia"
- Author James Warren
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9780521813693
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