The Epicurus Reader : Selected Writings and Testimonia
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1994
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- Title
- The Epicurus Reader : Selected Writings and Testimonia
- Author
- Epicurus, Gerson, Lloyd P.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0872202410
- ISBN 13
- 9780872202412
- Item weight
- 0.245 pounds
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
IntroductionThe ancient biography of Epicurus
The extant letters
Ancient collections of maxims
Doxographical reports
The testimony of Cicero
The testimony of Lucretius
The polemic of Plutarch
Short fragments and testimonia from known works:
* From On Nature
* From the Puzzles
* From On the Goal
* From the Symposium
* From Against Theophrastus
* Fragments of Epicurus' letters
Short fragments and testimonia from uncertain works:
* Logic and epistemology
* Physics and theology
* Ethics
Index
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Brad Inwood is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto.
Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto.
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