Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities in Plutarch’s Against Colotes 3-9
Through a close reading of Plutarch’s Against Colotes 3-9, the paper reconstructs and interprets (1) the original Epicurean criticism against Democritean epistemology and ontology, and in particular against Democritus’ theory of sensible qualities, and (2) Plutarch’s twofold criticism of (2a) Epicur...
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| Language: | English |
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ENS Éditions
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Aitia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/622 |