Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism are three significant philosophical schools of thought from ancient Greece and Rome. Each of these philosophies offers unique perspectives on reality, justice, morality, and the human soul and freedom. Epicureanism: Founded by Epicurus (341–270 BCE), Epicureanism...
But in Rome stoicism surged in popularity compared to all the other systems, because it was the one Greek ethics which worked well for the rich and powerful. Other schools like Platonism, cynicism, and Epicureanism warned followers that participation in politics and the pursuit of wealth, power,...
It rivalled Epicureanism and ancient skepticism through much of its history, and eventually gave way to neo-Platonism and Christianity, both of which it heavily influenced. The Stoics divided philosophy into three branches, logic, physics, and ethics. In logic they went substantially beyond Aristotle...
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While many schools of thought arose on the subject, Stoicism and Epicureanism dominated the philosophical landscape for nearly 500 years, often locked in ... WO Stephens - 《Ethics》 被引量: 1发表: 2007年 [Myocardial revascularization in the early XXIst century: less and less bypass indications...
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the foundational and profound philosophical contributions of the leading thinkers ofancient Greece, including the pre-Socratic cosmologists of the 6th and 5th centuriesbce; theintellectualgiants of ClassicalAthens—Socrates,Plato, andAristotle; and theHellenisticfounders ofStoicism,Epicureanism, and other majo...
Its chief competitors in antiquity were: (1)Epicureanism, with its doctrine of a life of withdrawal in contemplation and escape from worldly affairs and its belief that pleasure, as the absence of pain, is the goal of humans; (2)Skepticism, which rejected certain knowledge in favour of local...
Its chief competitors in antiquity were: (1)Epicureanism, with its doctrine of a life of withdrawal in contemplation and escape from worldly affairs and its belief that pleasure, as the absence of pain, is the goal of humans; (2)Skepticism, which rejected certain knowledge in favour of local...
Epicureanism distinguishes three kinds of desires: natural and necessary, natural though not necessary, and neither natural nor necessary (Roskam 2007; Sedley 1998; Vander Waerdt 1987). Epicurus argues that the pursuit of happiness is in fact a response to natural and necessary desires, which ...