Health and hedonism in Plato and Epicurus /

Arenson, Kelly E.,

Health and hedonism in Plato and Epicurus / by Kelly Arenson. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pleasure of psychic harmony in the Republic -- Restorative pleasure and the neutral state of health in the Philebus -- Plato's anti-hedonistic process argument -- Cicero's De finibus and Epicurean pleasure -- Epicurean pleasures of bodily and mental health -- Pleasurable restorations of health in Epicurean hedonism -- Epicureans on taste, sex, and other non-restorative pleasures -- Health and hedonism in Plato and Epicurus.

9781350080263 (ePDF) 9781350080270 (ePub)

2018056374


Plato.
Epicurus.


Pleasure.
Hedonism.
Health.
Ancient philosophy.

B398.P56

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