Epicurus: Letters, maxims and sentences.
The Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 30314 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 154 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251455266 |
Pocket Classics Collection.
“Why read Epicurus? Because he is a great philosopher? Certainly. Because his school had a very long and very profound influence? Without doubt. But also and above all because he is in many ways our contemporary (the remark has often been made, notably by Marcel Conche), and much more, in my opinion, than any other philosopher of ancient Greece: because he thinks of an unlimited universe devoid of finality, like ours, a finite and mortal world, like ours, a dangerous and uncertain history, like ours, all in an era of crises and upheavals, comparable in this to the one we are living; and because he teaches us to find there, to the extent of our means, the path to a certain happiness, adapted to our finitude, and to a certain wisdom, open to infinity.”
André Comte-Sponville
Pocket Classics Collection.
“Why read Epicurus? Because he is a great philosopher? Certainly. Because his school had a very long and very profound influence? Without doubt. But also and above all because he is in many ways our contemporary (the remark has often been made, notably by Marcel Conche), and much more, in my opinion, than any other philosopher of ancient Greece: because he thinks of an unlimited universe devoid of finality, like ours, a finite and mortal world, like ours, a dangerous and uncertain history, like ours, all in an era of crises and upheavals, comparable in this to the one we are living; and because he teaches us to find there, to the extent of our means, the path to a certain happiness, adapted to our finitude, and to a certain wisdom, open to infinity.”
André Comte-Sponville