Ethics

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File List

The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

David Sedley - Epucurean vs Cyreniac Happiness
- Cassius
- February 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Eudaimonia, happiness, is a property of a whole life, not of some portion of it. (Link to Article at the Academia.edu website.)
- 1
- 90 Downloads
The Justice of the Epicurean Wise Man by P. A. Vander Waerdt
- Godfrey
- July 30, 2024 at 11:56 PM
A defense of the Epicurean conception of justice
- 3
- 187 Downloads
Jeffrey Fish - Not All Politicians Are Sisyphus - What Roman Epicureans Were Taught About Politics
- Cassius
- March 6, 2023 at 10:43 PM
Well researched presentation of the argument that Epicurean philosophy can embrace, in proper circumstances, prudent participation in political affairs. I think this document is likely to become one of our key references on "engagement with society."
- 1
- 263 Downloads
CIcero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - By Mary Porter Packer (1938)
- Cassius
- February 16, 2022 at 1:27 PM
A study based primarily on De Finibus I and II
- 1
- 325 Downloads
Epicurean Conturbernium - Essay By Norman DeWitt
- Cassius
- December 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
VI.-Epicurean Contubernium NORMAN W. DEWITT - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
- 1
- 285 Downloads
GRZELAK: The Presence of Ethical Teaching in De Rerum Natura of Lucretius
- Cassius
- February 7, 2020 at 7:05 AM
Highlighting the Ethical Aspects of Lucretius' poem
- 369 Downloads
Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"
- Cassius
- May 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM
Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"
- 356 Downloads
Philodemus - A Study Of His Ethical Works
- Cassius
- March 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM
Philodemus
- 386 Downloads