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Diogenes of Oinoanda/Diogène d'Oenoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates/Épicurisme Et Controverses

Diogenes of Oinoanda/Diogène d'Oenoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates/Épicurisme Et Controverses

Morel, Pierre-Marie
Güremen, Refik
Hammerstaedt, Jürgen

Hardcover

Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-Series 1

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralAncient Greece

ISBN10: 9462701016
ISBN13: 9789462701014
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Nov 15 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest ancient inscription ever discovered. Over 70 new finds have increased the number of known wall blocks and fragments to nearly 300, offering new insights into Diogenes' distinctive presentation of philosophy. This collection of essays discusses the philosophical significance of these discoveries and is the first of this kind entirely devoted to Diogenes of Oinoanda. Particular attention is paid to his philosophical aims and polemical strategies. Diogenes was apparently well aware of still ongoing philosophical debates, engaging in polemics against Presocratic philosophers, Platonics, and especially Stoics. His views about important issues like happiness, fear, old age, and the afterlife are explained on the bases of Epicurean physics and theology, ethics, politics, theory of knowledge, and psychology.

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