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Index
Academic scepticism 9, 87–89, 92–4, 104, 136–7; see also Carneades
Aenesidemus 10
agency
divine 46
effective 77–80, 91
Anaxagoras 2
Anaximenes 2, 16–17
Annas, J. 181, 184, 186
Anselm 47
aponia 120–22, 126, 148, 175
apraxia argument see lazy argument
Arcesilaus 9, 88, 93–4, 136–7
Archytas 43
Arenson, K. 184
Aristotle 2, 4, 5, 16, 26, 28–30, 42, 44–5, 52–3, 57, 62, 78, 111–12, 115, 132, 134, 136
Armstrong, J. 194
artefact 52–3, 57, 108, 111–12, 142
Asmis, E. 182, 192
ataraxia 120–22, 127, 145, 148, 166, 167, 175
Atherton, C. 181
atomism 1, 3–5, 25, 31, 33–5, 74, 133
atoms and void 15–24
Bailey, C. 182
Bentham, J. 123, 140, 166
biology 51–60
bivalence, principle of 78–80
Brunschwig, J. 193
Burnyeat, M. 183, 192
Cambiano, G. 178
Campbell, G. 191
canon 97–106, 175
Carneades 80–82, 93, 182, 183
Chisholm, R. 182
Chrysippus 82–3
Cicero 7, 9
detractor of Epicurus 5, 10, 121–2, 130–31, 136, 152–4, 160, 171
On Ends 113–14, 118, 120–21, 131–2, 149–54, 171, 184, 186
On Fate 30, 78–83
On the Nature of the Gods 9, 156, 158–60
on Polyaenus 24
Clay, D. 177, 186, 189
Colotes 8, 9, 38, 68–9, 88, 99, 181
concept-formation argument 90–91
contractarianism 139–42
Cooper, J. 193
cosmology 41–50, 134, 155–6, 175, 179
courage 131–34, 147, 176
cradle argument 113–15, 175, 193
creation 51
Curd, P. 180, 181
Cyrenaics 7, 99, 119, 121
Darwin, C. 51, 54–5, 191
death 64–6, 131, 133–4, 151, 163–73, 186–7, 195
Democritus 1–4, 12, 17–18, 25–39, 42, 67–9, 74, 87–8, 178–81, 189–91
desire
for the good 112–14
forpleasure 66, 113–15, 117–28, 133, 150, 152
and volition 76–7
desires 66, 78, 83, 114, 124–7, 153, 166
determinism 73–83, 175, 182, 192
Diogenes of Oinoanda 8, 57, 178, 185
eidola see images
Empedocles 56
Englert,W. 190
epistemology 85, 184, 190, 192, 199, 201
Erler, M. 178, 195
ethics 107–8, 111, 121, 124, 143
Evans, M. 194
evil, problem of 41, 47–8
evolution 51, 55
Festugière, A. 195
Fowler, D. 182
free riders 142
freewill 73–9
friendship 4, 108, 111, 130–31, 147–54, 171, 185–6
Furley, D. 179, 180, 182, 190, 191
Ganson, T. 179
Garden 4–5, 8, 37, 146
geometry 23–4, 44
gods 2, 6, 41, 46–9, 51–3, 57, 82, 89–91, 105–6, 108, 130–31, 133–4, 155–62
good, the 89, 106, 111–15, 120–22, 131, 161
Gosling, J. 184, 193
Grice, P. 58
Gyges, Ring of 142–4
Hadot, P. 194
Hankinson, R. 180
hedonism 107–8, 113–15, 121, 129, 147–53, 165–6
Herculaneum 8, 183
Hermarchus 67, 181, 194
Hesiod 1–2
Homer 2, 64, 129
Huby, P. 182
Hume, D. 153, 186
identity theory 69, 70
images 62, 100–101, 159–60, 175
inaction argument 91
justice 9, 57, 108, 129–31, 139–46, 151, 185
Kant, I. 114, 143
Kripke, S. 169
language 51–60, 102
Laursen, S. 181
lazy argument 78–82, 91–5, 175
Lee, M. 190
Locke, J. 21
love 8, 9, 108, 147, 149–52, 166, 171, 184, 186
Melissus 17, 190
metaphysics 11, 179, 195, 198, 200
Metrodorus 146
Mill, J. S. 114, 184
mind 61–71, 112, 134, 157
atoms 91
and body 12, 46, 133, 164, 166, 176
location 6, 46–7, 74
pleasure andpain 117–18
swerves 75–6
minimal parts 22–4
Mitsis,P. 186
motion 74, 85, 87, 105, 155
atomic 3, 11, 25–32, 73, 75, 176, 182
in void 15–20, 23–4
Zeno of Elea 22
multiple explanations 104–6
Nagel, T. 165–70, 187, 195
natural selection 51, 54–5
Nausiphanes 1, 185
Nussbaum, M. 185, 193–4
O’Brien, D. 179
O’Connor, D. 185–6
ontology 33, 36, 67–8, 112, 191
pain 57–9, 63, 107, 113–15, 118–27, 130–31, 148–51, 184
death 164, 170–71
mental 117–27
Parfit, D. 169–70
Parmenides 17, 19–20, 43, 68, 87, 181, 190
Pasnau, R. 181, 191
Philodemus 6, 8–9, 152, 171, 178, 186, 187, 194
philosophy 11, 47, 85, 108, 129–38
physics 11–12, 85, 108, 112, 135–6, 155, 176
Plato 1–5, 36, 42, 46–8, 62, 64–5, 69, 101–2, 112–13, 122, 129, 132, 134, 139, 142–5, 160, 195
plenum 15–16
Plutarch 7–8, 38–9, 68, 134, 171, 181, 183
politics 5, 9, 145–6
Polyaenus 24
Polystratus 37–9, 67
Porphyry 9, 181, 184, 194
preconception 48–9, 85, 101–3, 156, 158, 176
pre-existence 65
Presocratics 2, 7
problem of evil 41, 47–8
prolēpsis see preconception
properties 12, 33, 36–40
accidental 36
atoms and void 17, 20–22
dispositional 36–40
mental 62, 68
real 34–6
relational 36–7, 68, 113
Purinton, J. 179, 182, 193
Pyrrho 10, 92
Pyrrhonian scepticism 10, 87–95, 97, 183
qualities, sensible 3, 12, 22, 33–40
Sedley, D. 177–83, 189, 191
self-refutation 87–90, 192
Sextus Empiricus see Pyrrhonian scepticism
sexual desire 184
soul
immaterial 3, 64–6
terminology 62
space 42–5, 56, 66, 157–8
between worlds 157
empty see void
Stoicism 9, 42, 46, 48, 58, 78–83, 94, 104, 115, 132, 156, 180, 193, 194
Strahm, M. 186
Striker, G. 184, 192
swerve 25–32, 73–83, 176
symmetry argument 168–9
taste 6, 34, 40, 100, 118–19, 122, 179
Taylor, C. 181, 184, 193
teleology 53, 191
telos 111–12, 193
Theophrastus 179
Thorsrud, H. 182, 183
time 20, 23
“timid” Epicureans 152, 171
Torquatos 131, 149, 152, 154, 184
truth 35, 80–81, 85, 97–103, 158, 175
Tsouna, V. 152, 194
universe 1, 6, 18, 26–7, 33, 41–50, 157
van Inwagen, P. 181
Vander Waerdt, P. 194
VerlinskyA. 191
virtues 108, 129–37
void 12–28, 44–5, 63, 68–9, 157
Wardy, R. 179, 181
Warren, J. 177, 186–7, 192, 195
weight 25–8, 30–31
Wilson, C. 178
wisdom 133–5
Woolf, R. 193
Xenophanes 159
Zeno of Citium 9
Zeno of Elea 17, 22, 176, 178, 190