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Quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea in Praeparatio Evangelica, book 14 (1903).
This, incidentally, indicates what is confused in the pseudo-Dostoyevskyan slogan. What kind of permission does the paraphraser of Dostoyevsky intend to invoke? It cannot be moral permission, for if there are no moral facts then nothing is morally permitted. But if it is some other kind of permission, then one needs a reason for thinking that the non-existence of moral facts will affect it. (An analogous dilemma faces the real Dostoyevskyan dictum, concerning the death of God.)
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Warren J (2002) Epicurus and Democritean ethics: An archaeology of ataraxia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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Joyce, R., Kirchin, S. Introduction. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 10, 421–425 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-007-9093-3
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