By Jacques Brunschwig
ISBN-10: 0511518390
ISBN-13: 9780511518393
ISBN-10: 052103499X
ISBN-13: 9780521034999
ISBN-10: 0521417120
ISBN-13: 9780521417129
This assortment makes on hand in English twelve essays via a wonderful French pupil, which give a contribution to the present scholarly and philosophical renewal of curiosity within the significant Hellenistic colleges of philosophy of the Greco-Roman international. the writer makes a speciality of particular difficulties in textual content or interpretation after which enlarges his conclusions to contain a few significant historic and philosophical concerns. of those items are released right here for the 1st time. The others, with one exception, have formerly seemed simply in French.
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One might just as well claim that a man does not change from his birth to his death, simply because he bears the same name throughout his life. It would seem, then, that that is not how Epicurus' proposition is generally understood. For there to be nothing 'that the all is not already', the all must be defined in such a way as to include, not only the totality T\ of beings that are physically existent (bodies and the void), but also the totality T2 of the states or ways of being of those beings.
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Epicurus considered that all the individuals who made up a particular people receive the same images (given that they all live in the same geographical location, the identity of the objects they perceive would serve as a criterion for the identity of their perceptive images), and that they all feel the same affections (since they all come from the same ethnic stock - the identity of their affected 'natures' serving as a criterion for the identity of the affections felt).
Bignone 1920; Ernout 1925, vol. 1, pp. LIX-CXXIII; Hicks 1925; Solovine (1925) 1968; Bailey 1926; Arrighetti (i960) 1973; Bollack 1971; Isnardi Parente 1974. 3 In the sixties, the notion of'private language' was the subject of an intense discussion based on L. Wittgenstein's critique of it in Philosophical Investigations. For an account of that debate and a bibliography, see Castaneda 1967. See also Jones 1971. 21 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2009 22 EPICUREANISM last phase.
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