9780872202429-0872202429-The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)

The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780872202429
ISBN-10: 0872202429
Edition: New Ed
Author: Lloyd P Gerson, Epicurus
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Hardcover 128 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780872202429
ISBN-10: 0872202429
Edition: New Ed
Author: Lloyd P Gerson, Epicurus
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Hardcover 128 pages

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The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780872202429 and ISBN-10: 0872202429), written by authors Lloyd P Gerson, Epicurus, was published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Dictionaries (Dictionaries & Thesauruses) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Dictionaries books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.72.

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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

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