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How to Live Well - Epicurus as a Guide to Contemporary Social Reform (Hardcover)
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How to Live Well - Epicurus as a Guide to Contemporary Social Reform (Hardcover)
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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.
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