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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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The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 163-188, July 2025.Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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J. Ebbeler, Discipling Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters. [PDF]
, 2013 Review of Ebbeler, Disciplining ...
Robin Whelan
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Temporal Dynamics With and Without a Nervous System: Plant Physiology, Communication, and Movement
Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2025.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.
Margherita Bianchi +7 more
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Foreknowledge and causal determinism
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract I evaluate Patrick Todd's critique of the idea accepted by many, including (in contemporary philosophy) Nelson Pike and John Martin Fischer, that there can be non‐causal constraints on human actions (including basic actions). I suggest that Todd's critical reflections, although illuminating, are not persuasive.
John Martin Fischer
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The Six Books of Lucretius’ De rerum natura: Antecedents and Influence
Dictynna, 2010 Lucretius’ De rerum natura is one of the relatively few corpora of Greek and Roman literature that is structured in six books. It is distinguished as well by features that encourage readers to understand it both as a sequence of two groups of three books
Joseph Farrell
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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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What Does It Mean to be Human, and Not Animal? Examining Montaigne’s Literary Persuasiveness in “Man is No Better Than the Animals” [PDF]
, 2018 Michel de Montaigne famously argued in “Man is No Better Than the Animals” that humans and non-human animals cannot be dichotomized based on language or reasoning abilities, among other characteristics.
Collins, Rory
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