Health And Hedonism In Plato And Epicurus - 9781350080256

The pleasure of psychic harmony in the Republic -- Restorative pleasure and the neutral state of health in the Philebus -- Plato's anti-hedonistic process argument -- Cicero's De finibus and Epicurean pleasure -- Epicurean pleasures of bodily and mental health -- Pleasurable restorations of health in Epicurean hedonism -- Epicureans on taste, sex, and other non-restorative pleasures -- Health and hedonism in Plato and Epicurus.

• | Author: Kelly Arenson
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 135008025X
• | ISBN-13: 9781350080256