EPICUREANISM

CONTENTS

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory

EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory
   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent
         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory
      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory
      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory
            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory
         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory
         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism
         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory
         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory
   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia

AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)
   Music

COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
Ecocriticism

HUMAN BEING:
Body:

Gender (Feminist Theory)
Race (Critical Race Theory)

Sexuality (Queer Theory):

Queer Critical Theory

Mind:
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

Self:
Writing the Self

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

Ethical Criticism

RELIGION:
Religion and Literature

NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry
   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION:

   Culture
   Economics
   History
   Law

Politics
Society

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES
TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
Aesthetics / Critical Theory

EPICUREANISM

Epicureanism was a Greek school of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus. Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear (ataraxia) as well as absence of bodily pain (aponia) through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of our desires. The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form. Epicureanism is most often opposed to Stoicism.

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CONFERENCES

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Annual:

COURSES

Monash University: Science, Happiness and Death in Stoic and Epicurean Philosophy (Baltzly)

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Inwood, Brad, and L. P. Gerson, eds. Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1988.
- Long, A. A., and D. N. Sedley, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers. 2 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
  - Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography. Vol. 2. 1989.
  - Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary. Vol. 1. 1987.
Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Algra, Keimpe, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld and Malcolm Schofield, eds. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
Selected Individual Works:
- Brunschwig, J. Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 1994.
- Long, A. A. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics. 2nd edition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.
- Martin, M. G. F., et al. "Post-Aristotelian Philosophy." Philosophy Study Guide. London: Aristotelian Society, 1997. 121-124.
- Mitchell, David. "Later Ancient Philosophy." Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject. Ed. A. C. Grayling. Oxford: OUP, 1998. 470-515.
- Sharples, R. W. Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics. London, 1996.

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