Updating Epicurus's concept of katastematic pleasure

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 473-482

  Splawn, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0141739323     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021997823870     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, ed. and trans. Brad Inwood and L. P. Gerson (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1988), p. 35.
2. Epicurus: The Extant Remains, ed. and trans. Cyril Bailey (New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1970), p. 89.
3. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Finibus bonorum et malorum, trans. H. Rackham (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), §1.39.
4. A.A. Long and D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987), vol. I, p. 122.
5. Ibid., p. 123.
6. See Plato, Philebus, trans. J. C. B. Gosling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), §§43A-44B.
7. See Inwood and Gerson, op. cit., p. 36.
8. J. M. Rist, Epicurus: An Introduction (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
9. Rist, op. cit., p. 102.
10. Ibid. See also Phillip Mitsis, Epicurus's Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 46 n. 92.
11. See Rist, op. cit., p. 109.
12. Rist, op. cit., p. 109.
13. See pp. 106, 109 & 125.
14. Rist, op. cit., p. 107.
15. Mitsis, op. cit.
16. Ibid., p. 45.
17. Long and Sedley, op. cit., p. 115.
18. Fred Feldman, "On the Intrinsic Value of Pleasure," Ethics (April 1997).
19. Peter Preuss, Epicurean Ethics: Katastematic Hedonism (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994), pp. 152-153.
20. I b i d.
21. Long and Sedley, op. cit., p. 115.
22. I wish to thank Fred Feldman, Gareth Matthews, John Robison, Jean-Paul Vessel, and an anonymous reviewer and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry.