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Self-Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Moeller A, Shorrocks AM, Lemna K.
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Temporal Dynamics With and Without a Nervous System: Plant Physiology, Communication, and Movement. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract 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 +7 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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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 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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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 +2 more
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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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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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The Modern Import of Lucretius’s Sublime
CoSMO, 2016 Lucretius’ 1st century B.C. poem De rerum natura was immensely influential in the genesis of the notion of the sublime in 18th centuryEurope. This influence tends to be eclipsed by that of Longinus and his essay “On the Sublime”, translated by Boileau in
Jonathan Pollock
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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2020 The following critical note aims at highlighting the liveliness and depth of three crucial thesis of Epicurean Ethics, by drawing on a recent publication, edited by Enrico Piergiacomi, of a selection of essays by Phillip Mitsis, A. S.
Chiara Rover
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