Keeping the Friend in Epicurean Friendship
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2021-07-27
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>There seems to be universal agreement among Epicurean scholars that friendship characterized by other-concern is conceptually incompatible with Epicureanism understood as a directly egoistic theory. I reject this view. I argue that once we properly understand the nature of friendship and the Epicurean conception of our final end, we are in a position to demonstrate friendship’s compatibility with, and centrality within, Epicureanism’s direct egoism.</jats:p>
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Carnes, Thomas (2021). Keeping the Friend in Epicurean Friendship. Apeiron, 54(3). pp. 385–410. 10.1515/apeiron-2020-0002 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31536.
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Thomas Carnes
I am a second-year PhD student. I am a Major in the Army who has been selected to be an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point upon completion of my PhD, where I will teach for the remainder of my Army career. I am broadly interested in social and political philosophy. I am originally from Virginia Beach, VA, am married to my best friend, Lyndsay, and have a daughter (Chloe) and a son (Owen). I enjoy spending time with my family, eating good food and drinking good wine with Lyndsay, reading, playing boardgames, and watching sports.
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