Description: Further DetailsTitle: How to Live WellCondition: NewSubtitle: Epicurus as a Guide to Contemporary Social ReformISBN-10: 1786432005EAN: 9781786432001ISBN: 9781786432001Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/27/2018Description: The ancient moral philosophy of Epicureanism offers many valuable lessons for the modern world. How to Live Well updates and modifies Epicurean philosophy to offer an exciting new framework for contemporary social reform. How To Live Well provides a synopsis of the key facets of Epicureanism and offers a history of Epicureanism across the past twenty centuries. Fitzpatrick identifies the core criticisms of Epicureanism and compares it with Aristotelian thought. In light of these criticisms, he proposes a ‘new epicureanism’, based around four key subjects: liberty and freedom, justice and community, our obligations to other humans and nonhumans, and social justice and reform. Rejecting classical Epicurean hostility towards public intervention, How To Live Well proposes that ‘new Epicureans’ must promote and defend social fairness, and equate personal with communal well-being. An ethos of ‘social guarantee’ could help rethink our social welfare systems, our use of public spaces, economic and employment systems, contextualising all of these in terms of the need for long-term ecological sustainability. Relating Epicurus to contemporary ideas and debates in politics and social reform, this book will be of interest to students of applied philosophy, ethics and social policy, as well as those with an interest in social theory and welfare.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Tony FitzpatrickGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: How to Live Well
Title: How to Live Well
Subtitle: Epicurus as a Guide to Contemporary Social Reform
ISBN-10: 1786432005
EAN: 9781786432001
ISBN: 9781786432001
Release Date: 04/27/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: How to Live Well : Epicurus As a Guide to Contemporary Social Reform
Language: English
Publisher: Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Sociology / Social Theory
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
Author: Tony Fitzpatrick
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
