Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion

ISBN-13: 9781474434676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

U Thomas (Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy

Opis

Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book 'De Rerum Natura'.

Spis treści

A Note on the Translation and Text; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Book I: 1. The Birth of Venus; 2. Love and War; 3. Religion; 4. The Flows of Matter; 5. The Pores of Matter; 6. The Event; 7. The Folds of Matter; 8. The Emancipation of the Senses; 9. The Infinity of Matter; Book II: 10. The Motion of Matter; 11. The Swerve; 12. The Form of Matter; 13. Morphogenesis; 14. The Sensation of Matter; 15. The Multiverse; Lucretius: Our Contemporary; Index.