Limit and Variation in the Epicurean Philosophy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7959545
AutoresPhillip De Lacy (autor de correspondencia)
Año1969
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas104
Fecha de publicación1969-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhoenix (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1086571
OpenAlexW2330970561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23

EPICURUS RETAINED the traditional demand of Greek philosophers for fixed standards of knowledge and value, but he abolished the traditional means of supplying these standards. He rejected all transcendence and held that the objects known to us by immediate experience undergo continuous motion and change. A central problem of his philosophy, therefore, was to discover fixed points in this world of change. His solution to this problem, I believe, lay in his notion of limit. Here I follow Lucretius, who tells us that the great prize which Epicurus brought back to us from his triumphant exploration of the universe was the knowledge

Epicureanism · Epistemology · Limit (mathematics) · Mathematical analysis · Physics · Variation (astronomy) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Mathematics · Philosophy