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Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin (Review)

By Timothy Sandefur

May 18, 2023
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2023
307 pp. $18.95 (hardcover)

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is said to have written four hundred books on subjects ranging from physics to morality, but almost all his writings are lost today. Most probably were destroyed by medieval Christian monks who thought his views incompatible with their own. They were …

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