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6 Αυγ 2020 · Was Epicurus an undeclared utilitarian? His name is not generally to the fore in contemporary treatments of utilitarianism, but the three Victorian founders of the doctrine, Bentham, Mill, and Sidgwick, looked back to Epicurus as an important precursor on the basis of his hedonistic theory of value.
- Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism
The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two...
- Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism
27 Μαρ 2009 · On the utilitarian view one ought to maximize the overall good — that is, consider the good of others as well as one's own good. The Classical Utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, identified the good with pleasure, so, like Epicurus, were hedonists about value.
26 Ιαν 2009 · The name of this sage, who endeavoured to provide in his own career an exemplar of his doctrine, was Epicurus of Samos. On Mill's reading of history, utilitarianism and Epicureanism were in essential respects the same.
10 Ιαν 2005 · The philosophy of Epicurus (341–270 B.C.E.) was a complete and interdependent system, involving a view of the goal of human life (happiness, resulting from absence of physical pain and mental disturbance), an empiricist theory of knowledge (sensations, together with the perception of pleasure and pain, are infallible criteria), a description ...
This paper describes the intellectual development of utilitarianism, drawing attention to the non-utilitarian origins, as well as the distinct religious and secular variations of utilitarianism in Britain, and the French utilitarians.
6 Αυγ 2020 · The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two fascinating and ongoing sources of Epicurean arguments, the Herculaneum papyri and the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda, both of which are continually enriching our understanding of Epicureanism.
Turning to questions of Epicurus’s philosophy itself, one of the most striking features of Hellenistic philosophy, which is shared by Epicureanism, is a drive for a systematic understanding of all aspects of the world and a confidence that not only can one come to understand its basic principles, but that such understanding will lead one to ...
