If our knowledge of Epicurean philosophy depended exclusively upon the information conveyed by their adversaries, we would be practically unaware of the political component of the Epicurean study of nature (φυσιολογία), ...

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliché: the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political ...

The present thesis aims at showing that the Stoic conception of human nature emerges as a point of divergence with the epicurean conception of human nature, and that from this divergence we have the cause of the distortion ...

The Epicurean παρ' ἡμᾶς(our power) signifies the human power to know, deliberate and act freely. The notion of παρ' ἡμᾶς separates fundamentally the Epicurean atomism from Pre-Socratic atomism and is a requisite for the ...

In his letters and maxims, Epicurus advises his readers to weigh each pleasure and pain since on occasion a small pain should be tolerated to obtain a greater pleasure, and a small pleasure should be avoided if it will ...

The goal of this article is to provide a better understanding of the organization of pleasure (voluptas) in the moral philosophy and in the social practices of the inhabitants of Utopia, the fictional island created by ...