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Lucretius on Death and Anxiety

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861292
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius on Death and Anxiety written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Facing Death

Author : James Warren
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780191531002
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Facing Death written by James Warren and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism tried to argue that death is 'nothing to us'. Were they right? James Warren provides a comprehensive study and articulation of the interlocking arguments against the fear of death found not only in the writings of Epicurus himself, but also in Lucretius' poem De rerum natura and in Philodemus' work De morte. These arguments are central to the Epicurean project of providing ataraxia (freedom from anxiety) and therefore central to an understanding of Epicureanism as a whole. They also offer significant resources for modern discussions of the value of death - one which stands at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics. If death is the end of the subject, and the subject can not be benefited nor harmed after death, is it reasonable nevertheless to fear the ceasing-to-be? If the Epicureans are not right to claim that the dead can neither be benefited nor harmed, what alternative models might be offered for understanding the harm done by death and do these alternatives suffer from any further difficulties? The discussion involves consideration of both ethical and metaphysical topics since it requires analysis not only of the nature of a good life but also the nature of personal identity and time. A number of modern philosophers have offered criticisms or defences of the Epicureans' views. Warren explores and evaluates these in the light of a systematic and detailed study of the precise form and intention of the Epicureans' original arguments. Warren argues that the Epicureans also were interested in showing that mortality is not to be regretted and that premature death is not to be feared. Their arguments for these conclusions are to be found in their positive conception of the nature of a good and complete life, which divorce the completeness of a life as far as possible from considerations of its duration. Later chapters investigate the nature of a life lived without the fear of death and pose serious problems for the Epicureans being able to allow any concern for the post mortem future and being able to offer a positive reason for prolonging a life which is already complete in their terms.

Approaches to Lucretius

Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386458
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Lucretius written by Donncha O'Rourke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions.

How to Be an Epicurean

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541672623
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book How to Be an Epicurean written by Catherine Wilson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time: it's a means to live a good life. Although modern conveniences and scientific progress have significantly improved our quality of life, many of the problems faced by ancient Greeks -- love, money, family, politics -- remain with us in new forms. To overcome these obstacles, the Epicureans adopted a philosophy that promoted reason, respect for the natural world, and reverence for our fellow humans. By applying this ancient wisdom to a range of modern problems, from self-care routines and romantic entanglements to issues of public policy and social justice, Wilson shows us how we can all fill our lives with purpose and pleasure.

Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature

Author : Maria Liatsi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110699613
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature written by Maria Liatsi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313601
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow written by Charles Segal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions into new forms. In place of the epic muse of martial glory, Euripides, Segal argues, evokes a muse of sorrows who transforms the suffering of individuals into a "common grief for all the citizens," a community of shared feeling in the theater. Like his predecessors in tragedy, Euripides believes death, more than any other event, exposes the deepest truth of human nature. Segal examines the revealing final moments in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, and discusses the playwright's use of these deaths--especially those of women--to question traditional values and the familiar definitions of male heroism. Focusing on gender, the affective dimension of tragedy, and ritual mourning and commemoration, Segal develops and extends his earlier work on Greek drama. The result deepens our understanding of Euripides' art and of tragedy itself.

Natality and Finitude

Author : Anne O'Byrne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004772
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Natality and Finitude written by Anne O'Byrne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought.

The Swerve

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099572443
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Swerve written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales

Author : Juwen Zhang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225060
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales written by Juwen Zhang and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twentieth century under the pseudonyms Lin Lan and Lady Lin Lan—previously unknown in the West, and now acclaimed as the Brothers Grimm of China. The birth of the tales began in 1924, when one author, Li Xiaofeng, published a set of literary stories under the Lin Lan pen name, an alias that would eventually be shared by an editorial team. Together, this group gathered fairy tales (tonghua) from rural regions across China. Combining traditional oral Chinese narratives with elements from the West, the selections in this collection represent different themes and genres—from folk legends to comic tales. Characters fall for fairies, experience predestined love, and have love/hate relationships with siblings. Garden snails and snakes transform into cooking girls, and dragon daughters construct houses. An introduction offers historical and social context for understanding the role that the Lin Lan stories played in modern China. Appendixes include information on tale types and biographies of the writers and contributors. The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales is a captivating testament to the power of storytelling.

Epicurus in Rome

Author : Sergio Yona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009281402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Epicurus in Rome written by Sergio Yona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout the volume, the impact of such disparate reception on the part of these leading authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as well as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in Italy, ranging from ethical and political concerns to the understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Poems of John Dryden

Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

De Rerum Natura IV

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Classical Texts
ISBN 13 : 0856683086
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book De Rerum Natura IV written by Lucretius and published by Classical Texts. This book was released on 1986 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.

Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death

Author : Bárbara Price Wallach
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004045644
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death written by Bárbara Price Wallach and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lucretius: a Poem Against the Fear of Death. With an Ode in (To the Pious) Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Ann Killigrew, Etc. [The First Translated by Dryden from “De Rerum Natura” Bk. 3, the Second Written by John Dryden, Here Anonymous.]

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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius: a Poem Against the Fear of Death. With an Ode in (To the Pious) Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Ann Killigrew, Etc. [The First Translated by Dryden from “De Rerum Natura” Bk. 3, the Second Written by John Dryden, Here Anonymous.] written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Epicurus Reader

Author : Epicurus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603845828
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Epicurus Reader written by Epicurus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Lucretius

Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius written by William Hurrell Mallock and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Epicureanism

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019968832X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Epicureanism written by Catherine Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very short introudction corrects the prevalent view of Epicureanism that often conjures up ideas of tasty delights and hedonism. Wilson explains the philosophical and scientific ideas of Epicurus and his followers and the legacy of Epicureanism on later European thought.