Autarquia e amizade: um paradoxo em Epicuro?

Abstract

The present work intends to understand the work of Greek Greek philosopher Epicurus from the point of view of a construction of the affections, starting from two presuppositions, the construction of itself and the construction of the other. A brief presentation of the author's thinking is given. It is considered the political context in which it lived, that is, starting from the decay of the polis. There is talk of the construction of his moral thought, which intends to describe a life based on the moderate enjoyment of the pleasures that are necessary for the conservation of life. It is analyzed how the thinker constructs a physics and an epistemology that underlies these moral principles: he shows a universe without teleology, in the ambition to demonstrate that man should not be afraid of death nor of superior forces. Finally, the concept of friendship is analyzed in his theory and practice trying to solve the following paradox: why a necessarily autarkic individual would need to make friends.