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The Living in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Animals’ ataraxia and Humans’ Distress
Relations, 2014 In trying to comprehend the human role among other living beings from an antispeciesist point of view it is possible to look back to those thinkers who, far before our times, had already considered other living beings from a non-anthropocentric ...
Alma Massaro
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Cosmologie et modèle biologique chez Lucrèce : dire l'unité du monde
Lexis, 2023 The present article tackles the issue of the unity and cohesion of the world as it is evoked by Lucretius in the De Rerum Natura. Through this work, we would like to show that the philosopher offers an original solution to this question by using a ...
Joncheray, Anne Claire
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No App, No Entry: Conceptualizing Digital Technology Captivity in Service Access
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 974-985, May 2026.ABSTRACT We introduce Digital Technology Captivity (DTC), a form of consumer vulnerability that arises when digital technologies become the mandatory gateway to essential services. When access is tied to systems that feel unfamiliar, complex, or intimidating—and when preferred alternatives are limited—consumers may experience heightened vulnerability ...
Carolyn Wilson‐Nash +4 more
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, 2013 This note suggests an emendation of Lucretius 4.791: et repetunt modulis gestum pede ...
Olszaniec, Włodzimierz +1 more
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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"Passage to India": Whitman and Lucretius [PDF]
, 2000 Identifies an image in "Passage to India" indebted to Lucretius and describes the more general Lucretian influence on the poem, finding Whitman's attitudes toward Lucretius ...
Jacobson, Howard
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Nunc, tum, nuper : Lucrèce et l’histoire
Aitia, 2020 Does Lucretius develop a conception of history, either as a theory of progress or as a theory of decadence? In fact, the passages where he talks about the past periods of Nature and successive human inventions are rather a reflection on the present and ...
Pierre-François Moreau
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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LUCRETIUS AND HIS DE RERUM NATURA SIX CENTURIES AFTER A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID SEDLEY
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2017 In this interview David Sedley reflects on some important points of hisseminal interpretation of Lucretius’ De rerum natura six centuries after its discovery in1417 by Poggio Bracciolini (Terranuova, now Terranuova Bracciolini, 1380 – Florence,1459).
FRANCESCO VERDE
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Sens et fonction de la théologie épicurienne d’après le De rerum natura
Aitia, 2020 The scope of this paper is to provide an analysis of the Epicurean theology in Lucretius’ poem. The epicurean discourse on gods seems to have three functions: therapeutical, theorical and ethical. After a description of those three functions, I challenge
Stéphane Marchand
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