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Epicurus on Justice ‘In Itself’ (καθ᾽ ἑαυτό) (Kuria Doxa 33)

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From the journal Apeiron

Abstract

This paper is a commentary on Epicurus’ Kuria Doxa (KD) 33, according to which “justice is not anything in itself [τι καθ᾽ ἑαυτό].” It explores what it means for something to exist ‘in itself’ in Hellenistic philosophy, speculating on the sources of Epicurean technical vocabulary and suggesting an ontological reading of KD 33.


Corresponding author: Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 801 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0480, USA, E-mail:

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