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1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Contents

5  Preface

6 Note on the Text

7  PART I: HOW THE EPICUREAN SEES THE WORLD

8  1. Back to BasicsThe Epicurean AtomAtomism: Three Consequences

9  2. How Did We Get Here?The Epicurean Theory of Natural SelectionDarwin’s Upgrade: How Selection Causes Evolution

10  3. The Material MindThe Mystery of ConsciousnessThe Evolution of Consciousness

11  4. The Story of HumanityThe State of Nature and the Rise of CivilisationAuthority and InequalityThe Lessons of the Past

12  PART II: LIVING WELL AND LIVING JUSTLY

13  5. Ethics and the Care of the SelfPleasure and PainPrudence and its LimitsHedonism and its ProblemsDon’t Suffer in Silence!The Pleasure Merchants

14  6. Morality and Other PeopleMorality vs PrudenceMoral Truth and Moral ProgressWhy Be Moral?What’s Different About Epicurean Morality?

15  7. Beware of Love!The Epicurean ExceptionThe Pains and Pleasures of LoveSexual Morality: Minimising Harm to OthersUsing Your Head

16  8. Thinking About DeathThe Epicurean View of DeathDeath at the Right and Wrong TimesAbortion vs InfanticideSuicide vs EuthanasiaResisting and Accepting MortalityDon’t Count on the Afterlife

17  PART III: SEEKING KNOWLEDGE AND AVOIDING ERROR

18  9. What Is Real?Nature and ConventionThings in BetweenHuman Rights: Natural or Conventional?The Imaginary: UnthingsThe Reality of the Past

19  10. What Can We Know?The Importance of First-Person ExperienceResolving DisagreementIs Empiricism True?

20  PART IV: THE SELF IN A COMPLEX WORLD

21  11. Science and ScepticismScientific ExplanationCan We Trust the Scientists?Living with Uncertainty

22  12. Social Justice for an Epicurean WorldThree Epicurean Philosophers on War, Inequality and WorkEpicurean Political PrinciplesJustice for Women: Nature, History and Convention

23  13. Religion From an Epicurean PerspectiveBelief in the ImaginaryPiety Without SuperstitionCan Religion Be Immoral?Can a Religious Person Be an Epicurean?

24  14. The Meaningful LifeTwo Conceptions of the Meaningful LifeMeaningfulness for the IndividualThe Problem of AffluenceThe Philosophical Perspective

25  15. Should I Be a Stoic Instead?The Stoic SystemToo Much Fortitude?Wrapping Up

26  Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading

27 Acknowledgements

28  About the Publisher

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