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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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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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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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The Classical Quarterly, 1995
This passage occurs in a series of examples of optical illusions which Lucretius provides in order to illustrate the way in which the mind can misinterpret the evidence of the senses. There are no manuscript variations relevant to the problem which I wish to discuss.The situation envisaged is that in fording a swift river, a horse has come to a halt in
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This passage occurs in a series of examples of optical illusions which Lucretius provides in order to illustrate the way in which the mind can misinterpret the evidence of the senses. There are no manuscript variations relevant to the problem which I wish to discuss.The situation envisaged is that in fording a swift river, a horse has come to a halt in
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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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