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Fiscal Year 1993: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
An aim of this study is to make clear whether or not Epicurus maintained two kinds of the gods.
At first I examine a relationship between the statement of the scholiast on the first of Principal Doctrines and the description of Cicero' De natura deorum I especially, by utilizing the writings of Epicurus himself, his disciples and the doxoraphers.
Then I guess that Cicero distorted slightly the intention of Epicurus' doctrine of the gods, because he weighted the softness of structure of gods and emphasized the eidola-gods in a passage of N.D.
Consequently I determine that Epicurus admitted two kinds of the gods, that is, the incorruptible gods dwelling in 'intermundia' as the origin of eidola and the eidola-gods as the derivative from them, although their substance consists of fine atoms.
Another aim of this study is to examine Epicurus' fragments and doxographies on his philosophy and to translate them into Japanese with commentaries. In this report the translations of Fr.7-25 (Arrighetti) and the list contrasting between the fragments in Usener, Epicurea and the fragments in Arrighetti, Epicuro Opere are described.
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