[Buddha-l] Call for Papers: Philosophy as Therapeia

[Curt Steinmetz]

Here's a link to the website for the Symposium in question:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/philosophy/events/rip/index.htm

They appear to have corrected the misidentification of Epicurus as a 
"Stoic" (on the website). Epicureans definitely viewed philosophy as 
therapy - like all of the major schools of Greek philosophy. Philosophy 
had no real meaning outside of the conscious effort to live well.

Curt

Michael Paris wrote:
> Epicurus was a _Stoic_? 
>
> Mayhaps there's some confusion between the Stoic Epictetus and the
> Epicurean Epicurus. 
>
> I'm not so sure that Epicurus conceived of philosophy as therapy;
> Epictetus, possibly.
>
>
> Michael Paris
>
> --- Katherine Masis <twin_oceans at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>>    
>>   The Stoic Epicurus (341-271 BCE) was not the only philosopher to
>> give voice to a conception of philosophy as a cure or remedy for the
>> maladies of the human soul. 
>>     
>
> [snips pre- and post-]
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