THOMAS CARLYLE ON EPICUREANISM IN THE FRENCH AND GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENTS
The young Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) had perused many of the Epicurean writings of the French Enlightenment. According to Carlyle, such 'Epicureanism' consisted primarily in an emphasis upon pleasure and pain as the springs of human action, and a positing of self-interest as the foundation...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The Historical Journal. - Cambridge University Press. - 61(2018), 3, Seite 673-694 |
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