title: Hermarchus’ treatise Against Empedocles and the dispute of the Epicureans and the Stoics on the origin of morality
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich, Marianna M.
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metadata.value: 2020-11-20T18:58:37Z
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metadata.value: 2020-11-20T18:58:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich M.M. Hermarchus’ treatise Against Empedocles and the dispute of the Epicureans and the Stoics on the origin of morality. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol.  36, issue  3, pp.  594–604.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.315
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20822
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metadata.value: The article analyzes the theory of the origin of morality, presented by the Epicurean Hermarchus in his treatise “Against Empedocles” (Porph. De abstin. I, 7–12). The author expresses
  doubt on the established point of view that Hermarchus, in criticizing Empedocles, actually
  meant to criticize the philosophical schools of his day, and did not polemicize with the Pythagoreans and the followers of Empedocles, but with the Stoics, whom he did not name,
  but had in mind. Exploring the Peripatetic and Epicurean tradition of using terms close to
  the concept of oikeiōsis, which was introduced by Hermarchus to explain the prohibition of
  killing a person by another person, the author of the article expresses the opinion that Stoic
  Chrysippus, criticizing the teaching of the Epicureans about the aspiration for pleasure as a
  person’s primary impulse in his essay “On the ultimate goal”, used this Epicurean term in his
  theory of the origin of morality (Diog. Laert. VII, 85). Such an “interception” or reinterpretation of concepts was a fairly common device used by the Stoics in a polemic against Epicureanism. Hermarchus, unlike the Stoics, who understood oikeiōsis exclusively in the context of
  the emergence of individual self-awareness and feelings of self-preservation, spoke about the
  social meaning of oikeiōsis, which described people’s perception of each other within the human community and shows the impossibility of such an attitude towards living beings outside
  this community (to animals). Later, the term oikeiōsis was considered to be Stoic, and its creation was attributed to Zeno.
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metadata.value: The article was written with the support of the RFBR grant no. 18-011-01123 “The problem of the
  conjugation of morality and religion in Epicurean and Stoic philosophy: a comparative analysis of polemical
  discourse”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hermarchus
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metadata.value: Epicureanism
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metadata.value: oikeiōsis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stoicism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chrysippus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cicero
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: origin of morality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doctrine of the “primary impulse”
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Hermarchus’ treatise Against Empedocles and the dispute of the Epicureans and the Stoics on the origin of morality
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