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Epicuro: Lettera Sulla Felicità
Original text of epicurus' Letter to Menoecius in jpeg format (pictures).
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Extractions: Un pensiero per la vita, solo per la vita. Un filosofo veramente amico che da ventitré secoli non cessa di dirci che non può esistere autentica felicità senza il piacere. Un pensiero che, contrariamente a tanti altri, non ha mai fatto e non può fare male a nessuno, che invita ad amare se stessi e soprattutto a rispettarsi, azione primaria per non danneggiare i nostri simili. Uno fra i pensatori più amati e odiati di tutti i tempi, senz'altro il più mistificato, equivocato, vilipeso, il cui pensiero è come un incubo nella storia del cristianesimo. La Lettera a Meneceo, qui proposta in una traduzione che punta a restituirci l'affabilità della voce di un uomo che pose l'amicizia al di sopra di tutto, è uno dei pochissimi scritti di Epicuro che non siano stati distrutti nel corso della storia dell'odio ideologico
Epicurus And Related Topics
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Extractions: as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun." Lucretius, De Rerum Natura , III.1045 Epicurus Diogenes Laërtius , he left 300 manuscripts, including 37 treatises on physics and numerous works on love, justice, the gods, and other subjects. Of his writings, only three letters and a number of short fragments survive, preserved in Diogenes Laërtius's biography . The principal additional sources of information about the doctrines of Epicurus are the works of the Roman writers Cicero , Seneca, Plutarch, and Lucretius , whose poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) delineates the Epicurean philosophy. See Epicureanism Epicureanism Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based chiefly on the teachings of the Greek philosopher Epicurus . The essential doctrine of Epicureanism is that pleasure is the supreme good and main goal of life. Intellectual pleasures are preferred to sensual ones, which tend to disturb peace of mind. True happiness, Epicurus taught, is the serenity resulting from the conquest of fear of the gods, of death, and of the afterlife. The ultimate aim of all Epicurean speculation about nature is to rid people of such fears. Epicurean physics is atomistic, in the tradition of the Greek philosophers Leucippus and
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La Lettera sulla felicit e cenni biografici.
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The Internet Classics Archive | Letter To Menoeceus By Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus By epicurus Commentary A few comments have beenposted about Letter to Menoeceus. Read them or add your own.
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Extractions: Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more. Therefore, both old and young ought to seek wisdom, the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. So we must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness
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Hedonism [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
The view, first put forward by epicurus, that our fundamental moral obligation is to maximize pleasure.
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Extractions: Philosophers commonly distinguish between psychological hedonism and ethical hedonism. Psychological hedonism is the view that humans are psychologically constructed in such a way that we exclusively desire pleasure. Ethical hedonism is the view that our fundamental moral obligation is to maximize pleasure or happiness. Ethical hedonism is most associated with the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (342-270 BCE.) who taught that our life's goal should be to minimize pain and maximize pleasure. In fact, all of our actions should have that aim: We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again, using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good. [Letter to Menoeceus] In A Letter to Menoeceus - one of his few surviving fragments - Epicurus gives advice on how to decrease life's pains, and explains the nature of pleasure. As to decreasing life's pain, Epicurus explains how we can reduce the psychological anguish that results from fearing the gods and fearing death. Concerning the nature of pleasure, Epicurus explains that at least some pleasures are rooted in natural and, as a rule, every pain is bad and should be avoided, and every pleasure is good and should be preferred. However, there is delicate relation between pain and pleasure. Every pain we have is bad, and we should minimize pain when possible. However, sometimes simply minimizing life's pains is sufficient to attain happiness, and we need to go a step further and actively increase pleasure. He argues that we should not pursue every possible pleasure, such as when they produce more pain. Also, argues that the fewer desires we have, the easier it will be to experience happiness.
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epicurus (c. 341c. 270), Epicurianism has two distinct, though cognate,meanings. In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined
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Extractions: Epicurianism has two distinct, though cognate, meanings. In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude. An epicure is one who is extremely choice and delicate in his viands. In the other sense, Epicureanism signifies a philosophical system, which includes a theory of conduct, of nature, and of mind. Epicurus, from whom this system takes its name, was a Greek, born at Samos 341 B.C., who, in 307 B.C., founded a school at Athens, and died 270 B.C. The Stoic School, diametrically opposite to this, was founded about the same time, probably 310 B.C. Thus these two systems, having for their respective watchwords Pleasure and Duty, sprang up within the first generation after Aristotle (d. 322 B.C.), each of them holding a half-truth and by exaggeration turning it into falsehood. The Epicurean School was rather a practical discipline than a habit of speculation. The master laid down his principles dogmatically, as if they must be evident as soon as stated, to any one not foolish. His disciples were made to learn his maxims by heart; and they acquired a spirit of unity more akin to that of a political party, or of a sect, than to the mere intellectual agreement of a school of philosophers. About a century and a quarter after the death of its founder, the system was introduced into Rome, and there, as well as in its native country, it attracted in the course of time a number of adherents such as moved the astonishment of
Electronic Texts Epicurus
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Lucretius And Epicureanism
Original and translated texts of Lucretius and epicurus. General backgrond information and commentary on Epicureanism.
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Extractions: LUCRETIUS LINKS LATIN TEXT of De Rerum Natura ENGLISH TRANSLATION by William Ellery Leonard OUTLINE of DRN BIOGRAPHY of Lucretius and basic information about his work BIOGRAPHY of Epicurus EPICURUS and Epicurean Philosophy HISTORICAL BACKGROUND and study questions for DRN The ATOMIC THEORY of Lucretius as it relates to modern scientific theory STUDY GUIDE to De Rerum Natura from Brooklyn College ESSAY by Pat Duffy Hutcheon Information about and excellent images of the papyrus scrolls of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus which were found at Herculaneum. Information about and excellent images of the inscription on Epicurus in Oenoanda (Turkey). Thomas Jefferson on Epicureanism Tennyson's Lucretius A Sixteenth Century edition of DRN An INTERPRETATION of DRN by Gary Sloan Browse the Philosophy Garden for more information and images.
Philosophers Epicurus
epicurus. Hellenistic Philosopher. 341271 BC. Together with Metrodorus(c.331-278)and Polyaenus(d. 278) epicurus founded the Hellenistic school of philosophy.
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Information about Epicureanismand epicurus, a brief bibliography, and more. Brief Reference Materials.epicurus. Born 341 BC Died 270 BC.
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Epicurus
Sophia Project epicurus. AND EPICUREANISM. Vain is the word of a philosopherwhich does not heal any suffering of man. epicurus.
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Extractions: Sophia Project EPICURUS AND EPICUREANISM "Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either if it does not expel the suffering of the mind." - Epicurus Background Materials: Epicurus Background Materials: Epicureanism On-Line Texts Texts of Epicurus Sophia Study Edition: Diogenes Laertius, Life of Epicurus Other Epicurean Sources Themes of Epicureanism Diogenes Laertius: Life and Teachings of Epicurus Cicero on Epicurean Ethics: De Finibus 1.9-21
Life Of Epicurus
The Life of epicurus. From The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers10.12. by Diogenes Laertius Translated by CD Yonge. Life of epicurus.
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Extractions: The Life of Epicurus From The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius Life of Epicurus I. Epicurus was an Athenian, and the son of Neocles and Chærestrate, of the burgh of Gargettus, and of the family of the Philaidæ, as Metrodorus tells us in his treatise on Nobility of Birth. Some writers, and among them Heraclides, in his Abridgment of Sotion, say, that as the Athenians had Colonis and Samos, he was brought up there, and came to Athens in his eighteenth year, while Xenocrates was president of the Academy, and Aristotle at Chalcis. But after the death of Alexander, the Macedonian, when the Athenians were driven out of Samos by Perdiccas, Epicurus went to Colophon to his father. II. And when he had spent some time there, and collected some disciples, he again returned to Athens, in the time of Anaxicrates, and for some time studied philosophy, mingling with the rest of the philosophers; but subsequently, he somehow or other established the school which was called after his name; and he used to say, that he began to study philosophy when he was fourteen years of age; but Apollodorus, the Epicurean, in the first book of his account of the life of Epicurus, says, that he came to the study of philosophy, having conceived a great contempt for the grammarians, because they could not explain to him the statements in Hesiod respecting Chaos.
Epicurus - Wikipedia
epicurus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. epicurus, HellenisticGreek philosopher (born Samos, 341 BC; died Athens, 270 BC).
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Ziniewicz On Epicurus
epicurus PHILOSOPHY AS PAIN AVOIDANCE by Gordon L. Ziniewicz. 1 suffering.(epicurus was physically ill for much of his life.). 17.
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Extractions: by Gordon L. Ziniewicz 1. The purpose of philosophy is not to pursue knowledge for its own sake, but to bring about peace of mind and body. 2. Happiness is peace of mind and body. It is tranquillity or undisturbedness (ataraxia), the quiet of a mind free from fear and a body content with natural satisfactions. 3. The soul and the body are composed of indivisible small particles called atoms. All that exists is either atoms, bodies compounded of atoms, or void (pure empty space within which atoms move). The human body is composed of coarser atoms that tend to hold together. The human soul is composed of very fine and smooth atoms that are dispersed, if they are not held in by the body. 4. The universe is eternal: atoms are eternal and indestructible and infinite in number. The void is infinite in extent (the void has no limits). 5. Atoms are constantly moving through the universe forming compounds. They generally move in a straight line, but they sometimes swerve, bumping into other atoms, vibrating back and forth and forming compounds. We cannot see atoms because they are very small and move at atomic speed. We can see things made of atoms because they organize into compounds large enough to see.
Epicurus
Science. Atoms. The Universe. Mind. Prudence. Sources. Introduction. epicurus (342270BCE) was born in Samos and is believed to have become a teacher in Colophon.
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Extractions: Click Home For Topic Search, Up For Period Summary Contents Introduction Philosophy Gods Pleasure ... Sources Introduction Epicurus (342-270 BCE) was born in Samos and is believed to have become a teacher in Colophon. He perhaps gained an interest in philosophy by reading Democritus . He subsequently formulated a philosophy of his own that extended the atomic theory of Democritus and his concept of cheerfulness. Epicurus probably started making his ideas public on the island of Lesbos in about 311 BCE. A few years later he returned to Athens, where he remained for the rest of his life, becoming famous for putting forward a broad-based philosophy linking the life of man and the physical world in a single atomic theory. He put forward his teachings in his garden outside of the city and became the venerated head of a unique society of men and women. When Epicurus died he left his house and garden in trust for the use of this society. Epicurus held that both mind and matter were conglomerations of material elements, so accounting for the interaction of body and mind. As a member of a society that could punish impiety towards its gods with death, Epicurus does not deny their existence but points out that the qualities attributed to them suggest an indifference to humanity. He promoted a way of life based on removal of desires beyond those of natural needs, achievement of a simple lifestyle, cultivation of friendship, and enjoyment of carefree pleasures. The Epicureans avoided involvement in public or private activities with heavy responsibilities, and praised the life that escaped notice. (The desire for non-involvement and for harmony with nature resonate with the principles put forward by
Epicurus, 341-270 B.C.
epicurus was born of Athenian parents on the island of Samos. epicurus, 341270BC. epicurus was born of Athenian parents on the island of Samos.
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Extractions: Epicurus, 341-270 B.C. Epicurus was born of Athenian parents on the island of Samos. He began his philosophical studies at an early age on the islands of the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor, where he encountered the followers of Plato and Democritus. He first taught at Mytilene, on Lesbos (c.311), and soon moved to Lampsacus on the Hellespont. Around 307 he established in Athens an Epicurean community called the Garden. The Garden became the prototype of most Epicurean groups at the time. Its members included women and at least one slave. The fact that the Epicureans accepted courtesans exposed them to the ridicule of their opponents. However, even the enemies of Epicurus admired their ability to cultivate such close friendships. After his death in 270, the followers of Epicurus celebrated his memory at a monthly feast and his teaching spread rapidly throughout the Greek world. Three letters containing summaries of Epicurean doctrine have been preserved in Diogenes Laertius' Life of Epicurus (see below): To Herodotus (on atomic theory);
Epicurus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
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