Epicurean Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780415075541 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 284 str.

Howard Jones; Howard Jones

Opis

Epicureanism has had a long and complex history. Established in Greece in the fourth century BC in response to the peculiar needs of a new age, it gained an immediate and widespread following throughout the Mediterranean world, and in Roman times competed on equal terms with Stoicism for the allegiance of the citizens of the empire. It was singled out by the early Church as a dangerous enemy of the faith, and the philosophy of the Garden became the target of a bitter campaign of denunciation and distortion; it was a one-dimensional Epicurus - the champion of earthly delights - who kept the name of the School alive throughout the Middle Ages.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 MAN FOR A SEASON; Chapter 2 SCHOOL IN THE GARDEN; Chapter 3 THE INVASION OF ITALY; Chapter 4 THE CHRISTIAN REACTION; Chapter 5 MEDIEVAL INTERLUDE; Chapter 6 THE HUMANIST DEBATE; Chapter 7 FRENCH REVIVAL; Chapter 8 EPICURUS BRITANNICUS;

O autorze

Howard Jones is a Professor of Classics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy both classical and post-classical.