Journal article
Plutarch’s Epicurean justification of religious belief
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In his dialogue, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, Plutarch of Chaeronea criticizes Epicurus for not believing that the gods are provident over human affairs and for not believing that our souls survive death. However, Plutarch’s arguments are striking in that they do not offer any theoretical justification for believing either of these religious claims to be true; rather, they aim to establish that we are practically justified in adopting them if we follow Epicurus’s rule that the g...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 430.6KB)
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- 10.1353/hph.2018.0044
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- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the History of Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 385-412
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-07
- DOI:
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1538-4586
- ISSN:
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0022-5053
- Source identifiers:
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847085
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- pubs:847085
- Deposit date:
- 2018-05-10
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- Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Johns Hopkins University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2018.0044
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