A relação entre as máximas de Diógenes de Enoanda e a Filosofia de Epicuro

Abstract

This article aims to present the relation between Diogenes of Oinoanda maxims and what we have as genuinely epicurean, i.e, with the material (letters, maxims and fragments) admitted as undisputed authorship of Epicurus. With this presentation, we show the strength of the orthodoxy Epicurus‟s doctrine, because generally speaking there are no differences between what Epicurus taught in Athens in the 3rd century BC and what Diogenes of Oinoanda claimed to be Epicureanism in the 2nd century AD. In fact, there is a single maxim that does not seem to follow Epicurus‟s doctrine (Diog. Oen. 107). However, this divergence is justified by the fact that this maxim is fragmented. Thus we believe that this article is a positive contribution to the academic community dedicated to the study of Epicureanism, especially considering the fact that it is an epicurean about which we have few articles, especially in Brazil. For the accomplishment of this work we use here the following books: (i) El sabio camino hacia la felicidad: Diógenes de Enoanda y el gran mural epicúreo, of Carlos García Gual (2016), from which we take the Diogenes of Oinoanda maxims; (ii) the Epistula ad Herodotum, Epistula ad Pythoclem, Epistula ad Menoeceum, as well as the Ratae Sententiae and the Vatican Sayings, of Epicurus; (iii) the Book X from Lives of Eminent Philosophers of the greek doxographer Diogenes Laertius.