On Epicurus

by Lillegard,Norman

• ISBN13: 9780534174651
• ISBN10: 0534174655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-06
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

ON EPICURUS, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay readership and quite often serve as "refreshers" for philosophy instructors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(3)
Nature	4	(8)
Knowledge, The Soul, and Freedom	12	(15)
Pleasure	27	(11)
Kinds of Desire	38	(7)
Prudence and Eudaimonia	45	(11)
Friendship and Justice	56	(7)
Pharmaceutical Philosophy	63	(9)
Epicurean Legacies	72	(18)
Bibliography	90