2014 Fall
Note: the term “Epicurean Family” is formulated by your instructor for purposes of introductory instruction. In ethical theory, this kind of philosophy would more usually go by the name “consequentialist.” In epistemology, this family would generally count as “empiricist.” And for metaphysics this family tends to run in the direction of “materialist.”
Democritus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus
Epicurus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus
Principal Doctrines
http://www.epicurus.net/en/principal.html
Marx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
Dissertation
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/
“Epicurus is therefore the greatest representative of Greek Enlightenment” (Part Two, Ch. 5, Meteors)
Theses on Feuerbach
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/
“the abstract individual . . . belongs in reality to a particular social form” (VII)
Capital
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
See for example, Ch. 10
UTILITARIANISM
Bentham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
Fragment on Government
http://www.constitution.org/jb/frag_gov.htm
Mill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
On Liberty
http://www.bartleby.com/130/
Singer
http://www.utilitarianism.net/singer/
NIETZSCHE
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm#link2H_4_0081
Database suggestion:
Armstrong, Aurelia. “The Passions, Power, and Practical Philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche Contra the Stoics.” The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44.1 (2013): 6-24. Project MUSE. Web. 7 Jan. 2014.
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