Alogos parastasis: le cause del turbamento in Epicuro (Hrdt. 81-82) e le Propatheiai Stoiche

The article focuses on the causes of disturbance (tarachos) according to Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus §§ 81-82, a text which recently drew renewed attention from Jürgen Hammerstaedt (2018). More specifically, the author will try to understand the specific meaning of the expression alogos parastasis (irrational inclination), which Epicurus, together with false opinions (kenodoxia), considers to be one of the causes of agitation. The final section of the study is devoted to a short comparison between Epicurus' alogos parastasis and the Stoic doctrine of propatheiai (preliminary impulses). [Publisher's text]