Epicurus: An Introduction to His Practical Ethics and Politics 3796540066, 9783796540066

Table of contents :
Titel
Inhalt
Preface
Chapter 1: Epicurus' Wise Man: Practical Ethics as philosophia medicans
1. Epicurus in the Vatican
2. Epicurus' Teachings
2.1 Negative Tenets
2.2 Positive Aspects
3. Epicurus' philosophia medicans
4. Epicurean Self-Deification: Timaeus as a Background
5. Ethical Value and Lack of Value in Nature
6. Friendship
Chapter 2: Epicurus' Garden: Cult and Philosophy
1. The Epicurean contubernium
2. Texts and Epicurean Community
3. Memorial Literature
4. Epicurean memento mori
4.1 Boscoreale
4.2 Philodemus
5. Epicurus, Fear of Death and Unlimited Desire
6. Plato's Dialogue Phaedo: A Memorial Text
6.1 Socrates
6.2 Phaedo
7. Epicurus on memoria and Lament
8. Conclusions
Chapter 3: Epicurean ˋTrue Politics'
1. Epicurus and Socratic ˋPolitics'
2. Epicurean Politics and its Aim: True Security
2.1 Social Security
2.2 From the Inside
3. Socrates, the True Politician: Gorgias
4. Aristotle
5. Philodemus
6. Diogenes of Oenoanda: An Epicurean Politician
7. Plutarch
Chapter 4: Theologia medicans. Epicurus' Transformation of Traditional Religious Practice
1. Epicurean theologia medicans
2. Existence
3. Remoteness of the Gods and their Cult
4. Recommendation of Cult (De pietate)
5. Prayer and Transformation
6. Lucretius' Hymn to Venus
7. Epicurean Prayer, Exercise and Soliloquy
Chapter 5: Interpretatio medicans: Epicurus, Poetry, and Epicurean Orthodoxy
1. Introduction
2. Epicurus and Education (paideia)
3. Philodemus, an Educated Epicurean
4. Epicurus' Use of Poetry
5. Lucretius' Poetry as a Servant to Philosophy: ancilla philosophiae
6. In the Service of paideia: How it was used and to what End
7. Two Methods: epilogismos and aphorme
8. Lucretius, De amore
9. Lucretius, The Plague
10. Conclusion: Orthodoxy and Innovation, again
Chapter 6: Epicureanism in the Roman Republic and in the Christian Imperium Romanum
1. Innovation and Orthodoxy: Epicurean Practical Philosophy and Roman mores
2. Epicurean Economics
3. Telemachus' Travels and Critique of Travelling
3.1 Telemachy
3.2 Philodemus' Critique of Travelling (De morte)
4. Adaption and utile
5. Convergences with and Divergences from the Christians
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

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