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Temporal Dynamics With and Without a Nervous System: Plant Physiology, Communication, and Movement. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract The concept of time has long been the subject of complex philosophical reflections and scientific research, which have interpreted it differently based on the starting question, context, and level of analysis of the system under investigation.
Bianchi M, Guerra S, Bonato B, Avesani S, Ravazzolo L, Simonetti V, Dadda M, Castiello U.   +7 more
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“NEVE LUCRETIUS A ME INDEFENSUS MANEAT”: GIROLAMO MERCURIALE, IL DE RERUM NATURA E LA MEDICINA NEL RINASCIMENTO

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2017
The return of Lucretius’ De rerum natura in 1417 promoted an increasing recovery of ancient medical theories related to the atomistic philosophy in Renaissance Italy. Since Girolamo Fracastoro used Lucretian concept of semina rerum to explain the spread
ANDREA CECCARELLI
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The Epicurean Parasite: Horace, Satires 1.1-3 [PDF]

, 1998
We have learned a great deal in recent years about reading Horace\u27s satires; there is now widespread agreement that the speaker of the satires is himself a character within them, a persona.
Ahl, Armstrong, Bollack, Brown, Brown, Cataudella, Coffey, Corbett, Culler, Cèbe, Damon, Damon, de Witt, DeLacy, Evenepoel, Freudenburg, Frischer, Gaiser, Gargiulo, Gigante, Gold, Gowers, Harmon, Henderson, Hoist, Hunter, idem, Kassel, Kiessling, Kilpatrick, Kindstrand, Long, Lyne, Maguiness, McCartney, Merrill, Mitsis, Murley, Nesselrath, Nisbet, Nussbaum, O’Hara, Rabe, Reckford, Ribbeck, Rudd, Schrijvers, Sedley, Seeck, Sider, Snyder, Sommariva, Tait, Vickers, Watson, Weiher, Zetzel   +56 more
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Seminal Verse: Atomic Orality and Aurality in De Rerum Natura

Eugesta, 2018
In Lucretius’ thoroughgoing materialism, hearing, like sight or taste, is tactile. Atomic material must issue from a source, move through space, and enter a receptacle in order for these sense perceptions to operate.
Michael Pope
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Hedonism Before Bentham [PDF]

, 2015
The hedonistic theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are both widely known. Hedonism before Bentham, however, is much less known and, hitherto, no systematic presentation of hedonism’s early history has been written.
Moen, Ole Martin
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THE PHENOMENON OF “SIMULACRUM” IN THE WORKS OF TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2013
Purpose. We are going to analyze the understanding of simulacra in the works of the ancient philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, to determine the features of the phenomenon of "simulacrum" in his paper "On the Nature of Things". Results and discussion. The
Mariia A. Oleshchenko
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CIL, VI 21521 = 34137 (cle 1109): un sogno in forma poetica = CIL, VI 21521 = 34137 (CLE 1109): a dream in poetic form

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2020
Riesame dell’iscrizione di Roma CIL, VI 21521 = 34137 (CLE 1109) sotto il profilo epigrafico, letterario e metrico; il testo, seppur non privo di una sua originalità, sembra attingere a un ricco serbatoio di riferimenti poetici, che spaziano da Lucrezio,
Gianmarco Bianchini, Dylan Bovet, Gian Luca Gregori   +2 more
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Lucretian Puzzles

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021
It seems that people typically prefer dying later to dying earlier. It also seems that people typically do not prefer having been created earlier to having been created later.
Michael Rabenberg
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Lucretius or the philosophy of chemistry [PDF]

, 1997
A world view deriving from the objective knowledge acquired by the physical sciences is contrasted with the fashionable subjective philosophical view that all systems of thought are equally valid ways of structuring the universe.
Mackay, Alan L.
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Il passer epicureo: Lucrezio nei carmi 2 e 3 di Catullo

Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2020
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the passer in Catullus’ cc. 2 and 3 is a symbol for the epicurean poet Lucretius. In c. 2 Catullus describes Lucretius’ bond with the epicurean sapientia (the puella) and hopes for himself to achieve peace ...
Nicola Piacenza
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