Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy

Javier Aoiz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santiago, Chile. He is a founding member of the Venezuelan Society of Phenomenology, the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy and the Group of Philosophical Research University of Salamanca-University Simo´n Boli´var. His publications include Alma y tiempo en Aristóteles (2007) and Hierocles el Estoico, Elementos de Ética, Extractos de Estobeo y Glosas de la Suda (co-authored with Deyvis Deniz, 2014). Marcelo D. Boeri is Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile. He served as a co-editor of Me´thexis (International Journal for Ancient Philosophy) and as a member of the editorial board of the International Plato Studies series (International Plato Society). His publications include Los Filósofos Estoicos: Ontología, Lógica, Física y Ética (coauthored with Ricardo Salles, 2014) and is co-editor of Soul and Mind in Greek Thought: Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle (2018).

Acknowledgments
Notes on the Texts and Translations
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The Genealogy of Justice and Laws in Epicureanism
2. The City, the natural God and the Epicurean Promise of Security
3. Prolepsis, Justice and Usefulness in the Epicurean Contractual Political Model
4.. Cicero, Plutarch and Lactanctius as Readers of Epicurus
5. The Epicurean Sage, the Issue of Justice and the Laws
6. The Greek Poleis, Rome and its Illustrious Epicurean Citizens
7. Conclusions. Friendship, Law and Justice: The Epicureans and their Interest in
Interpersonal relations

Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum