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Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Pierre-Marie Morel, Refik Güremen (eds.), Diogenes of Oinoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates / Diogène d’Œnoanda: Épicurisme et controverses [PDF]
, 2018 Bakker, Frederik
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Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De rerum natura 5.772–1104 by Gordon Campbell [PDF]
Aestimatio, 2005 Brooke Holmes
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The Mining Industries, 1899-1939: A Study of Output, Employment, and Productivity [PDF]
Harold Barger, Sam H. Schurr
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In “On Lucretius,” Brooke Holmes and Isabelle Lewis intertwine psychology of Book 3 of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things with an engagement in and production of poetry, dance, song, and art.
Isabel Lewis, Brooke Holmes
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Isabel Lewis, Brooke Holmes
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Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2001
Lucretius wanted his poetry to convey the scientific truths of Epicurean doctrine. In addition, he thought that one single generative and organic principle unites atomistic physics and the combinatory production of meaning. Thanks to the interplay between its “outer metric” (the distribution of dactylic ...
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Lucretius wanted his poetry to convey the scientific truths of Epicurean doctrine. In addition, he thought that one single generative and organic principle unites atomistic physics and the combinatory production of meaning. Thanks to the interplay between its “outer metric” (the distribution of dactylic ...
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University of Toronto Quarterly, 1932
The part which creative imagination and intuition play in framing scientific hypotheses when disciplined by a logical habit of mind, is strikingly illustrated in the views of some of the early Greek philosophers. For though they did not understand the method of empirical science, and had no mechanical aids, they adumbrated the two most fruitful ...
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The part which creative imagination and intuition play in framing scientific hypotheses when disciplined by a logical habit of mind, is strikingly illustrated in the views of some of the early Greek philosophers. For though they did not understand the method of empirical science, and had no mechanical aids, they adumbrated the two most fruitful ...
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2022
Epicurus solved all philosophical problems with his combination of atomism and hedonism. Or so assumed the Roman poet Lucretius. His epic On the Nature of Things applies Epicurus’s doctrine to cure the fear of death. Since you are a temporary construction of atoms, your permanent annihilation is inevitable.
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Epicurus solved all philosophical problems with his combination of atomism and hedonism. Or so assumed the Roman poet Lucretius. His epic On the Nature of Things applies Epicurus’s doctrine to cure the fear of death. Since you are a temporary construction of atoms, your permanent annihilation is inevitable.
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2015
The De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things or On the Nature of the Universe) is a Latin poem in six books composed in the mid-1st century bce by Titus Lucretius Carus to introduce a Roman audience to the philosophy of the Greek materialist thinker Epicurus (341–270 bce).
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The De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things or On the Nature of the Universe) is a Latin poem in six books composed in the mid-1st century bce by Titus Lucretius Carus to introduce a Roman audience to the philosophy of the Greek materialist thinker Epicurus (341–270 bce).
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2020
This chapter explores distinctive features of Lucretius’s presentation of Epicureanism, particularly his use of verse and the interplay between the poem’s overt concern with physics and its underlying ethical message. The De rerum natura—it is argued—seeks constantly to bring out the ethical corollaries of Epicurus’s physical theory (emphasizing, for ...
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This chapter explores distinctive features of Lucretius’s presentation of Epicureanism, particularly his use of verse and the interplay between the poem’s overt concern with physics and its underlying ethical message. The De rerum natura—it is argued—seeks constantly to bring out the ethical corollaries of Epicurus’s physical theory (emphasizing, for ...
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Greece and Rome, 1934
The physical theories of Democritus were and are profoundly interesting as an attempt to answer some of the great questions of natural science—how to account for growth and change, for the fact that earth turns into corn, corn into men, and men again into earth.
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The physical theories of Democritus were and are profoundly interesting as an attempt to answer some of the great questions of natural science—how to account for growth and change, for the fact that earth turns into corn, corn into men, and men again into earth.
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