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An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
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How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds o
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The Birth of Hedonism
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Authors: Kurt Lampe
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According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard
Early Greek Ethics
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Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the four