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7On Revisiting “Epicurus on the Art of Dying”In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr, Springer Verlag. pp. 399-417. 2024.In 1976, Fred Miller published a brief, but highly original, paper entitled “Epicurus on the Art of Dying.” This was shortly after Thomas Nagel’s well-known 1970 paper which attempted to counter Epicurus’s claim that death does us no harm, and somewhat before ancient philosophers and their philosophical colleagues started turning Epicurus’s death arguments into a major growth industry. I argue that if Epicurean scholars had taken Miller’s arguments to heart it would have saved them going down a …Read more
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7StoicismIn Christopher Shields (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Introductions Stoic Approach to Philosophy: Importance of Systematicity Stoic Sources Stoic Ethics Stoic Psychology and Physics Stoic Logic Conclusion Notes References and Recommended Reading.
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65Review Essay: Epicurus' Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of InvulnerabilityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 677. 1991.
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14The concept of causality in presocratic philosophy : D.Z. Andriopoulos , 132pp (review)History of European Ideas 10 (4): 490-492. 1989.
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24Epistemology. Companions to Ancient Thought, 1 by Stephen Everson (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 85 148-148. 1991.
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11Commentary on CooperProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 13 (1): 105-111. 1997.
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110Epicurus' ethical theory: the pleasures of invulnerabilityCornell University Press. 1988.By means of a comprehensive and penetrating examination of the main elements of Epicurean ethics, Phillip Mitsis forces us to reevaluate this widely misunderstood figure in the history of philosophy.
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24Chapter NineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1): 303-322. 1988.
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68Epicurus : freedom, death, and hedonismIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 73. 2013.This chapter begins with an Epicurean account of freedom of choice, which illustrates some of the larger contours of Plato's ethical aims in the context of his materialism. It also serves as a salient point of departure for gauging the overall plausibility of his general project of ‘naturalizing reason’, to use a contemporary slogan Epicurus might well have endorsed. The discussions then turn to Epicurus's claims about death and pleasure.
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12Colloquium 11Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 447-454. 1990.
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1The stoics and Aquinas on virtue and natural lawIn David T. Runia, Gregory E. Sterling & Hindy Najman (eds.), The Studia Philonica Annual, Brown University. pp. 35-63. 2003.
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This latest volume of BACAP Proceedings contains some innovative research by international scholars on Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles. It covers such themes as Plato on the philosopher ruler, and Aristotle on essence and necessity in science. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
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2The Oxford Handbook to Epicurus and Epicureanism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important subsequent influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Such a detailed and comprehensive study of Epicureanism is especially timely given the tremendous current revival of interest in Epicurus and his rivals, the Stoics. The thirty-one contributions in this volume offer an unmatched resource for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicurus' …Read more
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8Encyclopedia of classical philosophy (edited book)Greenwood Press. 1997.The almost 300 articles contain not only historical accounts but also some indication of the state of present day study in classical philosophy.
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20Epicurus on Death and the Duration of LifeProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1): 303-22. 1988.
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30Natural Law and Natural Right in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy. The Stoics and Their CriticsIn Wolfgang Haase (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 4812-4850. 1987.
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53The norms of nature. Studies in hellenistic ethicsJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 465-466. 1989.
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10Commentary on SayreProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 72-78. 1986.
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26Review of Brad Inwood: Ethics and human action in early Stoicism (review)Ethics 98 (4): 855-857. 1988.
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