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»Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert gut fundiert, daß es – entgegen dem ersten Anschein und einem verbreiteten Vorurteil – nicht nur eine epikureische Moral, sondern auch eine epikureische Politik gibt, die beide einen nachhaltigen Einfluß auf die neuzeitlichen Debatten bezüglich der rechtlichen, moralischen und politischen Ausgestaltung menschlichen Zusammenlebens genommen haben. So können die hier versammelten Beiträge nicht nur dazu dienen, einen oft gescholtenen und übel verleumdeten – weil oft verkannten – Philosophen der Antike in ein neues Licht zu rücken. Darüber hinaus helfen sie ohne Frage, eine hinsichtlich des modernen Epikureismus bislang bestehende Forschungslücke zu schließen.«
Friedhelm Decher, Marburger Forum
Der Garten und die Moderne
Epikureische Moral und Politik vom Humanismus zur Aufklärung
herausgegeben von Eckhart HolzboogThe return of the classical philosophers«: with this formula Eugenio Garin described a special feature of our Modern Age. He pointed out, however, that this was not only about philologically restoring classical sources but about a fundamental reshaping of an intellectual possession that was again made available. Among all the traditions of classical antiquity, it certainly was the Epicurean tradition which had the most radical character compared to the widely known traditions of Platonism and Aristotelianism. None the less, there is no complete or satisfying picture of the great philosophical and cultural phenomenon of modern Epicureanism today. It is also peculiar that the historians‹ attention has been extremely selective in this case: among the three great partitions (logic, physics and ethics), physics has largely dominated the scene. The fields of law and politics and their connection to anthropology (especially regarding the concepts of the historic development of mankind and of religion) have much less been taken into account. The essays in this book deal with different aspects of the question whether Epicureanism has played an important role for the foundation of the legal, political and moral culture of the Modern Age. They make clear that the influence of Epicureanism has been much more penetrating than one could have assumed. They also show that Epicureanism directly concerned politics, moral, law and practical experience in general, in which it produced new elaborations that were relevant to the Modern Age.