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Epicureanism at the origins of modernity
Catherine Wilson
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; 2008.
ISBN: 0199238812   DDC: 187   LCC: B512  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-296) and index.

Atomism and mechanism -- Corpuscular effluvia: between imagination
and experiment -- Order and disorder -- Mortality and metaphysics --
Empiricism and mortalism -- Some rival systems -- The social contract
-- The problem of materialism in the New essays -- Robert Boyle and
the study of nature -- The sweetness of living.

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Dewey Class: 187 -- Epicurean philosophy
LCC Number: B512

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 304 p. ; 25 cm.

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