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Title: The Epicurus Reader
Condition: New
EAN: 9780872202412
ISBN: 9780872202412
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 15/03/1994
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 139mm
Item Weight: 124g
Author: Lloyd P. Gerson, Epicurus
Translator: Brad Inwood
Contributor: Brad Inwood (Translated by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Description:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction
The 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


Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Book Series: Hackett Classics
Topic: Language & Reference
Release Year: 1994

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