Diego Fusaro

Epicurus's Pharmacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Since antiquity, Epicurus¿ thought has been compared to a powerful drug able to cure the pains of the soul that have always tormentedman preventing him from living a peaceful existence: but we know that the Greek term pharmakon can be interpreted in its two opposite meanings of medicine and poison; and indeed, the same duplicity animates Epicurus¿ philosophy which, by acting as a medicine for the human soul, also has the effect of a poison, destroying from within, philosophy traditionally conceived as a disinterested contemplation of truth. The philosophical revolution undertaken by Epicurus as a fracture with respect to all the previous tradition, from Thales to Aristotle, coincides with an inversion of the traditional relation between man and cosmos, between theory and practice: the classic question ¿what is reality made of?¿ is replaced by the Epicurean question that is at the basis of his philosophical anthropocentrism: ¿how must reality be made and how should one understand it in order to be happy?¿. Each specific articulation of Epicurean philosophy is subordinate to the task of achieving a happy existence that is in no way inferior to any of the divine realities¿.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mimesis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 136mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9788869771460
• ISBN-10: 8869771466
• Artikelnr.: 49024105