Achieving Tranquility: Epicurus on Living without Fear

In Nathan Powers & Jacob Klein (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Explores the role of eliminating fear in Epicurean ethics and physics, focusing on techniques to eliminate the fear of death and the fear of the gods.

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