Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. B
Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is m
Konstan (classics and the humanistic tradition and comparative literature, Brown U.) inquires into Athenian philosopher Epicurus' (341-270 BC) analysis of irrational fears and desires, arguing that su
Advice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide
希臘哲學有兩大路徑。一條是柏拉圖路線，另一條是自然哲學路線。伊壁鳩魯學派代表著希臘自然哲學的倫理精神的最完善狀態。伊壁鳩魯（Epicurus）很喜歡寫“概要”，而這些概要性的書信和格言集留存了下來，這構成了本書上編的內容。下編是古羅馬的盧克來修（Lucretius）的哲學長詩《萬物本性論》（De Rerum Natura），這是一個散文體的新譯本。
From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we expe
The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and "Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action," explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of
