Jan Maximilian Robitzsch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2486129 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Maximilian Robitzsch |
| NOMBRES | Jan Maximilian |
| APELLIDO | Robitzsch |
| FIRMA | ROBITZSCH J M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5244-8091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Why Epicurean happiness is not for everyone
It is often assumed that Epicurean happiness can be achieved by everyone alike. This paper offers a corrective to this view. While it is true that the Epicureans abolish traditional differences among people like those between the sexes, social classes, and so on, they also maintain that there are people who are incapable of achieving happiness because they lack a certain bodily make-up or because they do not have the right ethnic or cultural orig…
Epicurean Feelings ( pathē ) as Criteria
This paper is dedicated to feelings ( pathē ) as criteria of truth and criteria of choice and avoidance in Epicureanism. The first section reviews two features of the other two Epicurean criteria of truth, perceptions and preconceptions: their non-rational and evident character. The second section extends the account to feelings, showing how, on the basis of their non-rational and evident character, feelings can be used to gain insights. The thir…
Gegen wen ist Kuria Doxa 33 gerichtet
Scholars usually understand Κύρια Δόξα ( ΚΔ ) 33 as an antiplatonic polemic. This paper denies the communis opinio . First, it argues for an ontological reading of the maxim according to which justice (understood as virtue) is not a body but a property. Second, it shows that the Stoics hold the very thesis disputed in ΚΔ 33, namely that virtue is a body. This makes the Stoa the natural target of the maxim. Finally, the paper deals with De rerum n…
Zeno of Sidon and the Status of Women in Epicureanism
This article contributes to our understanding of women in the Epicurean school. Focussing on the second- and first-century b.c.e. philosophers Zeno of Sidon and Philodemus of Gadara, it examines some neglected textual evidence and argues that a misogynist position can be traced back to Zeno. While Epicureanism contains many progressive ideas on women and early Epicureans admitted women in their communities, Zeno was much more dismissive of women …
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be
This paper discusses Protagoras’ account of how political communities come to be in Plato’s Protagoras. The paper argues against recent readings of Protagoras’ culture story that attempt to assimilate it to Aristotle’s account by claiming that the text prefigures the Aristotelian thesis that human beings are political animals by nature. Instead, the paper suggests that Protagoras’ account is part of a different tradition of political thinking, po…
Epicurus’ Non-Propositional Theory of Truth
Scholars typically distinguish at least two different Epicurean conceptions of truth: (1) an account that pertains to the truth of perceptions or impressions and (2) an account that pertains to the truth of opinions. This paper addresses the relationship between the truth of perceptions (and by extension: preconceptions and feelings), on the one hand, and the truth of opinions, on the other. It offers an account of what these determinations of tr…
Επιβολη Της Διανοιας
This paper discusses ἐπιβολαὶ τῆς διανοίας , which later Epicureans are supposed to have elevated to a fourth criterion of truth to complement perceptions, preconceptions and feelings. By examining Epicurus’ extant writings, the paper distinguishes three different senses of the term: ‘thought in general’, ‘act of attention’ and ‘mental perception’. It is argued that only the sense ‘mental perception’ yields a plausible reading of ἐπιβολαί as a cr…
Epicurus’ Divine Hedonism
In this paper, we show how the Epicureans are part of and transform the originally Platonic ethical tradition of the assimilation to the divine ( ὁμοίωσις θεῷ ). We argue that a proper understanding of this tradition helps us to understand better the role that thinking plays in Epicurean ethics: Epicurus’ emphasis on and reinterpretation of thinking allows him to reject more forcefully the claim that the best life is a life of unreflective pleasu…
Speeches for the Dead
The Menexenus , in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato’s notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the contributions of scholars working o…
Speeches for the Dead
Cicero’s De Finibus
The Epicureans on Human Nature and its Social and Political Consequences
Based on certain passages in Colotes, Hermarchus, and Horace, the Epicureans may be thought to defend a social contract theory that is roughly Hobbesian. According to such a view, human life without the social contract is solitary and brutish. This paper argues that such a reading is mistaken. It offers a systematic analysis of Lucretius’s culture story in On the Nature of Things v as well as the Epicurean passages that at first sight seem to con…
On Aspasia in Plato's Menexenus
This paper offers a close analysis of the passages of Menexenus that mention Aspasia, one of Plato's rare female characters. It argues that Aspasia is neither obviously presented as an object of ridicule nor as an object of praise, as many scholars think
Epicurus’ Non-Propositional Theory of Truth
Scholars typically distinguish at least two different Epicurean conceptions of truth: (1) an account that pertains to the truth of perceptions or impressions and (2) an account that pertains to the truth of opinions. This paper addresses the relationship between the truth of perceptions (and by extension: preconceptions and feelings), on the one hand, and the truth of opinions, on the other. It offers an account of what these determinations of tr…
The Epicureans on Human Nature and its Social and Political Consequences
Based on certain passages in Colotes, Hermarchus, and Horace, the Epicureans may be thought to defend a social contract theory that is roughly Hobbesian. According to such a view, human life without the social contract is solitary and brutish. This paper argues that such a reading is mistaken. It offers a systematic analysis of Lucretius’s culture story in On the Nature of Things v as well as the Epicurean passages that at first sight seem to con…
On Aspasia in Plato's Menexenus
This paper offers a close analysis of the passages of Menexenus that mention Aspasia, one of Plato's rare female characters. It argues that Aspasia is neither obviously presented as an object of ridicule nor as an object of praise, as many scholars think
Speeches for the Dead
The Menexenus , in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato’s notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the contributions of scholars working o…
Speeches for the Dead
Cicero’s De Finibus
Epicurus’ Divine Hedonism
In this paper, we show how the Epicureans are part of and transform the originally Platonic ethical tradition of the assimilation to the divine ( ὁμοίωσις θεῷ ). We argue that a proper understanding of this tradition helps us to understand better the role that thinking plays in Epicurean ethics: Epicurus’ emphasis on and reinterpretation of thinking allows him to reject more forcefully the claim that the best life is a life of unreflective pleasu…
Epicurus’ Non-Propositional Theory of Truth
Scholars typically distinguish at least two different Epicurean conceptions of truth: (1) an account that pertains to the truth of perceptions or impressions and (2) an account that pertains to the truth of opinions. This paper addresses the relationship between the truth of perceptions (and by extension: preconceptions and feelings), on the one hand, and the truth of opinions, on the other. It offers an account of what these determinations of tr…
Επιβολη Της Διανοιας
This paper discusses ἐπιβολαὶ τῆς διανοίας , which later Epicureans are supposed to have elevated to a fourth criterion of truth to complement perceptions, preconceptions and feelings. By examining Epicurus’ extant writings, the paper distinguishes three different senses of the term: ‘thought in general’, ‘act of attention’ and ‘mental perception’. It is argued that only the sense ‘mental perception’ yields a plausible reading of ἐπιβολαί as a cr…
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be
This paper discusses Protagoras’ account of how political communities come to be in Plato’s Protagoras. The paper argues against recent readings of Protagoras’ culture story that attempt to assimilate it to Aristotle’s account by claiming that the text prefigures the Aristotelian thesis that human beings are political animals by nature. Instead, the paper suggests that Protagoras’ account is part of a different tradition of political thinking, po…
Why Epicurean happiness is not for everyone
It is often assumed that Epicurean happiness can be achieved by everyone alike. This paper offers a corrective to this view. While it is true that the Epicureans abolish traditional differences among people like those between the sexes, social classes, and so on, they also maintain that there are people who are incapable of achieving happiness because they lack a certain bodily make-up or because they do not have the right ethnic or cultural orig…
Epicurean Feelings ( pathē ) as Criteria
This paper is dedicated to feelings ( pathē ) as criteria of truth and criteria of choice and avoidance in Epicureanism. The first section reviews two features of the other two Epicurean criteria of truth, perceptions and preconceptions: their non-rational and evident character. The second section extends the account to feelings, showing how, on the basis of their non-rational and evident character, feelings can be used to gain insights. The thir…
Gegen wen ist Kuria Doxa 33 gerichtet
Scholars usually understand Κύρια Δόξα ( ΚΔ ) 33 as an antiplatonic polemic. This paper denies the communis opinio . First, it argues for an ontological reading of the maxim according to which justice (understood as virtue) is not a body but a property. Second, it shows that the Stoics hold the very thesis disputed in ΚΔ 33, namely that virtue is a body. This makes the Stoa the natural target of the maxim. Finally, the paper deals with De rerum n…
Zeno of Sidon and the Status of Women in Epicureanism
This article contributes to our understanding of women in the Epicurean school. Focussing on the second- and first-century b.c.e. philosophers Zeno of Sidon and Philodemus of Gadara, it examines some neglected textual evidence and argues that a misogynist position can be traced back to Zeno. While Epicureanism contains many progressive ideas on women and early Epicureans admitted women in their communities, Zeno was much more dismissive of women …
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