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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: 65, University College London (UCL), language: English, abstract: The early Christian writers, in …

Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: A, American University of Central Asia, course: FYS, language: English, abstract: This essay se …

Literature Review from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: B, Indiana University, language: English, abstract: This really entertaining and educating boo …

But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, even though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant. Yet there are a few philosophers …

De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The b …

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 b …

Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that w …

Plutarch was a man of letters of unlimited curiosity; his overall subject, worked out across innumerable essays, dialogues, letters, speeches, and stories, is nothing less than life itself. As such, …

In ‘The Atomic Theory of Lucretius, ‘ Fleeming Jenkin meticulously unpacks and contemporizes the ancient Roman philosopher Lucretius’s understanding of atomic theory. Through a scholarly lens, Jenkin …

T. Lucretius Carus’Äôs ‘Of the Nature of Things’ is a monumental philosophical poem that intricately weaves Epicurean thought into a narrative form, exploring the nature of the universe, the principl …