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The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature.

with an Appendix

Written: March 1841;

First Published: 1902;

Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume 1;

Publisher: Progress Publishers;

Transcription/Markup: Andy Blunden;

Online Version: Brian Baggins (marxists.org) 2000.

Contents: According to Marx's original Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Part One: Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in General

I. The Subject of the Treatise

II. Opinions on the Relationship Between Democritean and Epicurean Physics

III. Difficulties Concerning the Identity of the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

IV. General Difference in Principle Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

V. Result

Part Two: Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in detail

Chapter One: The Declination of the Atom from the Straight Line

Chapter Two: The Qualities of the Atom

Chapter Three: Atomoi archai and atoma stoicheia

Chapter Four: Time

Chapter Five: The Meteors

Appendix Critique of Plutarch's Polemic against the Theology of Epicurus

[Fragment from the Appendix]

II. Individual Immortality

1. On Religious Feudalism. The Hell of the Populace

2. The Longing of the Multitude

3. The Pride of the Elected

Notes

I. On Religious Feudalism. The Hell of the Populace

II. Opinions on the Relationship between Democritean and Epicurean Physics (notes)

III. Difficulties concerning the Ientity of the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. (notes)

IV. General Difference in Principle between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

Preliminary Note

I. The Relationship of Man to God

1. Fear and the Being Beyond

2. Cult and the Individual

3. Providence and the Degraded God

Draft of new Preface

Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy

Editors' Footnotes and Preface, Image of Draft Preface.