Prolepsis y justicia en el epicureísmo
The influential 19th century philosophical historiography did not recognize in Epicureanism a political philosophy worthy of study. Based on an analysis of the Principal Doctrines and texts of Hermarchus, Polystratus and Lucretius, this paper aims to show that Epicureans developed a relevant political theory that connected two traditions: the Ionian naturalism and the Socratic reformulation of philosophy as the only true politics. In the establishment of justice through covenants and its continuity in the language through the prolepsis of what is just, they saw a finding that offered man the required security to satisfy his necessary natural desires and his survival.
Social and political thought
According to Hegel's rich and powerful dialectical philosophy of history and history of philosophy, the characteristic philosophies of the Hellenistic era, and Stoicism in particular, express the alienation of political impotence, and indeed the transition from Sittlichkeit and the oneness of man with community to Moralitat and the emergence of the individual moral agent. This complex of fact, pseudo-fact and interpretation is what in one version or another sustains the prevailing climate of opinion about Hellenistic political and social thought. The best evidence for the character of Hellenistic kingship treatises comes from two documents, one dating from the second century BC, and the other at least thirty years after that. Polybius draws on a variety of philosophical sources, some still identifiable, some not, to produce a striking exercise in constitutional analysis. According to Epicurus, social security is not enough; freeing men's minds from fear of death and the gods is of much greater importance.
Chrysippus’S response to diodorus’S master argument
Chrysippus claims that some propositions perish. including some true conditionals whose consequent is impossible and antecedent is possible, to which he appeals against Diodorus’s Master Argument. On the standard interpretation. perished propositions lack truth values. and these conditionals are true at the same time as their antecedents arc possible and consequents impossible. But perished propositions are false, and Chrysippus’s conditionals are true when their antecedent and consequent arc possible, and false when their antecedent is possible and consequent impossible. The claim of the Master Argument that Chrysippus rejects, then, is stronger ihan usually supposed