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Treatise on Epicurean Philosophy
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Treatise on Epicurean Philosophy

work by Gassendi
Also known as: “Syntagma philosophiae Epicuri”
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  • Epicurus
    Epicureanism
    / Epicureanism and egoism in modern philosophy

    …the Syntagma philosophiae Epicuri (Treatise on Epicurean Philosophy), was issued posthumously at The Hague 10 years later. At the same time, in England, Thomas Hobbes, a friend of Gassendi, took up again the theory of pleasure and interpreted it in a dynamic sense, which was therefore closer to the…

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    …the Syntagma philosophiae Epicuri (Treatise on Epicurean Philosophy), was issued posthumously at The Hague 10 years later. At the same time, in England, Thomas Hobbes, a friend of Gassendi, took up again the theory of pleasure and interpreted it in a dynamic sense, which was therefore closer to the…

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