2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0618-2162-01 | Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course is an introduction to the philosophy of the Epicureans and the Stoics. These two schools emerged in Athens after the death of Aristotle and played a crucial role up to the beginning of the Roman Empire. We will study the principal tenets of their ethical, physical and epistemological doctrines.