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Epicureanism and the harm of death
Recently I have been trying to understand the various Epicurean arguments to the conclusion that death does not constitute a ‘harm’, or a ‘bad event’ for an individual. (I am … more »
Smooth Motions
Lucretius Contra Heidegger
stellarcartographies wrote 1 month ago: It has become de rigueur in the last century, the last philosophical century, to approach thought v … more »
Epicureanism and the harm of death
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tpummer wrote 2 months ago: Recently I have been trying to understand the various Epicurean arguments to the conclusion that dea … more »
Animus, anima, mens, et al.
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voidobsequy wrote 2 months ago: So, I looked over the Latin for the passage we briefly discussed at the end of the last class. This … more »
Brownian Motion
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voidobsequy wrote 2 months ago: This was something I wanted to draw attention to in class, just cause I thought it was neat. One of … more »
Lucretius on "laws of nature"
Don wrote 2 months ago: While depriving laws of any metaphysical origin, Lucretius places them at the very heart of his atom … more »
Receiving Images
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pererik7 wrote 2 months ago: Epicureans think that we receive images (and other sense impressions) of things as result of thin fi … more »
Reason in Plato & Lucretius
Andrew Czink wrote 3 months ago: Observations on The Timaeus and On The Nature Of Things. It must be the historical distance from the … more »
Sunday blogging: On the Nature of Things -- Philip Pullman edition
Tom wrote 3 months ago: So I’m late to the Pullman party. I only picked up The Golden Compass after the publicity sur … more »
The pain of seeing others suffer
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fryk wrote 3 months ago: I was perusing Hume this morning–what a morning!–and found an interesting reference to t … more »
14 March 2008: Day 27 (In which Lucretius ponders the physical attractiveness [or lack thereof] of "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan")
youngdayofalldays wrote 3 months ago: Lucretius took the old book off of the shelf and felt the cover. It caught his eye for the first t … more »
20 February 2008: Day 15 (Digital Warfare)
youngdayofalldays wrote 4 months ago: “One, two, three, four - I declare a thumb war!,” giggled Diderot. “Best out of f … more »
18 February 2008: An Aside #11 (Armed)
youngdayofalldays wrote 4 months ago: When Lucretius was a young archivist, he organized his files into two categories: Armed and Unarmed … more »
16 February 2008: Day 14 (The Two and The One)
youngdayofalldays wrote 4 months ago: LUMINOUS THEOPHANY Lucretius appeared suddenly as a streak of light. Diderot was washing his dinn … more »
24 January 2008: Day -3 (Day Ago [fire-proof])
youngdayofalldays wrote 5 months ago: Lucretius waited for Nestor to pass before beginning. First he collected each word that Nestor had … more »
19 January 2008: Day -1: Day Gone By
youngdayofalldays wrote 5 months ago: 3:35 PM CST Saturday. Fargo, ND. USA. As Lucretius begins to categorize, Diderot starts to archive. … more »
Lucretius did not deny the existence of god
bosskitty wrote 6 months ago: Lucretius Lucretius did not deny the existence of gods either, but he felt that human ideas about go … more »
Updates from Below
webmasterofpurgatory wrote 6 months ago: Hell crashed yesterday morning. They’ve been running some kind of bizarre system that I cannot … more »
Lucretius writes about the origins of music.
Barry Mitchell wrote 7 months ago: From de rerum natura (On the Nature of the Universe), Bk. 5. Lucretius (c.100-c.55 BCE) was a Roman … more »
On the Nature of Things
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Entropy wrote 7 months ago: On the Nature of Things (Latin: De rerum natura) is a first century BC epic poem by Lucretius that g … more »
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