Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-01T21:31:16.608Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

5 - Epicureanism and Hedonism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2017

By
Voula Tsouna
Edited by
Sacha Golob  and
Jens Timmermann
Sacha Golob
Affiliation:
King's College London
Jens Timmermann
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Get access
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy , pp. 57 - 74
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Annas, J. (1993) The Morality of Happiness, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Babut, D. (2005) ‘Sur les dieux d’Épicure’, Elenchos 26: 79–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, E. (2002) ‘Epicurus on the Value of Friendship (Sententia Vaticana 23)’, Classical Philology 97: 68–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brunschwig, J. (1986) ‘The Cradle Argument in Epicureanism and Stoicism’, in Schofield, and Striker, 1986: 113–44.Google Scholar
Cooper, J. (1999) ‘Pleasure and Desire in Epicurus’, in Cooper, J., Reason and Emotion, Princeton University Press, 485–514.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Erler, M. and Schofield, M. (1999) ‘Epicurean Ethics’, in Algra, K. et al. (eds.), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 642–69.Google Scholar
Essler, H. (2011) Glückselig und unsterblich: epikureische Theologie bei Cicero und Philodem (mit einer Edition von PHerc. 152/157, Kol. 8–10), Basel: Schwabe.Google Scholar
Giannantoni, G. (1984) ‘Il piacere cinetico nell’etica epicurea’, Elenchos 5: 25–44.Google Scholar
Gosling, J.C.B. and Taylor, C.C.W. (1982) The Greeks on Pleasure, Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hossenfelder, M. (1986) ‘Epicurus – Hedonist malgré lui’, in Schofield, and Striker, 1986: 245–63.Google Scholar
Inwood, B. (1990) ‘Rhetorica Disputatio: The Strategy of De Finibus II’, in Nussbaum, M. (ed.), The Poetics of Therapy, Apeiron 23.4: 143–64.Google Scholar
Irwin, T. (1991) ‘Aristippus against Happiness’, Monist 74: 55–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Konstan, D. (2008) A Life Worthy of the Gods, Las Vegas/Zürich/Athens: Parmenides.*Google Scholar
Konstan, D. (2012) ‘Epicurean Happiness: A Pig’s Life?’ Journal of Ancient Philosophy 4: 1–24.Google Scholar
Kripke, S. (1980) Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Long, A.A. and Sedley, D.N. (1987) The Hellenistic Philosophers, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press.*Google Scholar
Mansfeld, J. (1993) ‘Aspects of Epicurean Theology’, Mnemosyne 46: 172–210.*CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitsis, P. (1988) Epicurus’ Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability, Ithaca, NY/London: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Nagel, T. (1979) Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Nagel, T. (1986) The View from Nowhere, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Nikolsky, B. (2001) ‘Epicurus on Pleasure’, Phronesis 46: 440–65.Google Scholar
Obbink, D. (1989) ‘The Atheism of Epicurus’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 30: 187–223.Google Scholar
Obbink, D. (1996) Philodemus. On Piety I, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
O’Keefe, T. (2001a) ‘Would a Community of Wise Epicureans Be Just?’ Ancient Philosophy 21: 133–46.*Google Scholar
O’Keefe, T. (2001b) ‘Is Epicurean Friendship Altruistic?’ Apeiron 34: 269–305.Google Scholar
Parfit, D. (1984) Reasons and Persons, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Purinton, J. (1993) ‘Epicurus on the telos’, Phronesis 38: 281–320.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Purinton, J. (2001) ‘Epicurus on the Nature of the Gods’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 21: 181–231.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rist, J.M. (1972) Epicurus. An Introduction, Cambridge University Press.*Google Scholar
Santoro, M. (2000) ‘Il pensiero teologico epicureo: Demetrio Lacone e Filodemo’, Chronache Ercolanesi 30: 63–70.Google Scholar
Schofield, M. (2008) ‘Ciceronian Dialogue’, in Goldhill (ed.), S., The End of Dialogue in Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 63–84.Google Scholar
Schofield, M. and Striker, G. (eds.) (1986) The Norms of Nature, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Sedley, D. (1976) ‘Epicurus and his Professional Rivals’, in Bollack, J. and Laks, A. (eds.), Études sur l’Épicurisme Antique, Cahiers de Philologie 1, Lille: Centre de Recherche Philologique de l’Universite de Lille.Google Scholar
Sedley, D. (1998) ‘The Inferential Foundation for Epicurean Ethics’, in Everson, S. (ed.), Ethics. Companions to Ancient Thought 4, Cambridge University Press, 129–50.*Google Scholar
Sedley, D. (2011) ‘Epicurus’ Theological Innatism’, in Fish, J. and Sanders, K. (eds.), Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 9–52.Google Scholar
Striker, G. (1993) ‘Epicurean Hedonism’, in Brunschwig, J. and Nussbaum, M. (eds.), Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge University Press, 3–17.Google Scholar
Tsouna, V. (2002) ‘Is There an Exception to Greek Eudaemonism?’, in Canto, M. and Pellegrin, P. (eds.), Le style de la pensée. Mélanges Jacques Brunschwig, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 464–89.Google Scholar
Tsouna, V. (2007) The Ethics of Philodemus, Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tsouna, V. (2009) ‘Epicurean Therapeutic Strategies’, in Warren, 2009a: 249–65.*CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warren, J. (2002) Epicurus and Democritean Ethics. An Archaeology of Ataraxia, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Warren, J. (2004) Facing Death, Oxford: Clarendon.*CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warren, J. (ed.) (2009a) The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warren, J. (2009b) ‘Removing Fear’, in Warren, 2009a: 234–48.Google Scholar
Woolf, R. (trans.) (2001) Cicero: On Moral Ends, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Woolf, R. (2004) ‘What Kind of Hedonist Was Epicurus?’ Phronesis 49: 303–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Woolf, R. (2009) ‘Pleasure and Desire’, in Warren, 2009a: 158–78.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×