The Epicurean Republic - A Conversation with Matthew Stewart
By Howard Burton
Length1h 41m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart. In his later years, Thomas Jefferson referred to “the revolutionary part of the [American] Revolution”, which for him meant the founding ideals that would serve as a model for the world on how to build a modern state, as opposed to an incidental squabble between one country and its former colonists. This wide-ranging conversation explores how many of these ideals that Jefferson referred to are part of an intellectual thread that passes through key Enlightenment thinkers such as Spinoza and can be traced all the way back to Epicurus.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, The Collective Unconscious, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Setting the Stage - Clues from a mountain man
II. Deism - Functional atheism?
III. The Power of Ideas - Tracing a path
IV. The Pursuit of Happiness - Well beyond hedonism
V. The Heart of the Matter - Religious sentiment, exceptionalism and the future
About Ideas Roadshow Conversations:
This book is part of a series of 100 Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Philosophy
Length1 hr 41 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6II. Deism
2A Note on the Text
7III. The Power of Ideas
3Introduction
8IV. The Pursuit of Happiness
4The Conversation
9V. The Heart of the Matter
5I. Setting the Stage
10Continuing the Conversation
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