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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]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT 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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Lucretius

, 2014
This is the second chapter of George Santayana’s book Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Harvard University, 1910). “Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe sum up the chief phases of European philosophy, naturalism, supernaturalism, and ...
Santayana, George
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Lucretius' apocalyptic imagination [PDF]

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2020
L’articolo prende in esame i tratti apocalittici (in senso letterale) del De rerum natura di Lucrezio, suggerendo il confronto con testi che appartengono al corpus delle apocalissi pseudepigrafe giudaico-ellenistiche ; la descrizione della peste come ‘apocalisse’ conclusiva del poema e le sue implicazioni politiche ed escatologiche; infine il rapporto ...
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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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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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Ficino's Critique of Lucretius

, 2010
After an early flirtation with Lucretius, Marsilio Ficino, the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance, became a confirmed enemy of the Epicurean philosopher.
Hankins, James
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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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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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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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