Stefano Maso (CA' Foscari - Unversity Of Venice): Publications - PhilPeople

CA' Foscari - Unversity Of Venice
Department Of Philosophy And Cultural Heritage

Associate Professor
University of Venice
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy, Misc

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Action

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy, Misc

Decision Theory

Practical Reason

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Epicureans, Earlier Atomists, and Cyrenaics
In Kelly Arenson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, . pp. 58-70. 2020.

The theory developed by Leucippus (5th cent. BCE), Democritus (470/460-380 BCE), and later Epicurus (341-271/270 BCE) and his school is commonly defined as atomistic materialism. According to this theory, matter is the fundamental principle of existent and ever-evolving reality, and it is constituted of atoms. But whereas for the first atomists atoms were not so much a substance (ousia) as an ideal form (idea) through which they could explain sensible bodies and their movement, with Epicurus at…Read more
The theory developed by Leucippus (5th cent. BCE), Democritus (470/460-380 BCE), and later Epicurus (341-271/270 BCE) and his school is commonly defined as atomistic materialism. According to this theory, matter is the fundamental principle of existent and ever-evolving reality, and it is constituted of atoms. But whereas for the first atomists atoms were not so much a substance (ousia) as an ideal form (idea) through which they could explain sensible bodies and their movement, with Epicurus atoms effectively turned into a substance. From a mathematical theory we come to a physical conception.

Epicurus Socratics Atomists Ancient Greek and Roman Metaphysics

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