Epicurus and Democritean Ethics - An Archaeology of Ataraxia

This 2002 book explores the origins of the Epicurean philosophical system in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus and ataraxia; 1. Introducing the Democriteans; 2. Democritus' ethics and atomist psychologies; 3. Anaxarchus' moral stage; 4. Pyrrho and Timon: inhuman indifference; 5. Polystratus and Epicurean pigs; 6. Hecataeus of Abdera's instructive ethnography; 7. Nausiphanes' compelling rhetoric; Conclusion: Epicurus and Democriteanism: determinism, scepticism and ethics; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.

About the author

James Warren is Assistant Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Summary

This 2002 book explores the neglected question of the ancestry of the Epicurean philosophical system by tracing its origins in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. An important contribution is thereby made to the philosophical interpretation of Epicureanism, especially on its ideal of tranquillity and the relation of ethics to physics.

Product details

• Authors: Warren James, James Warren
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2011
• EAN: 9780521813693
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81369-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day