Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion

ISBN-13: 9781474466646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

U Thomas (Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy

Opis

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: Thomas Nail shows that Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems in his first-century BC didactic poem De Rerum Natura.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; Book III: 1. A Matter of Desire; 2. Kinophobia; 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason; 4. Dark Materialism; 5. The Ethics of Motion; Book IV: 6. Ethics of the Simulacrum; 7. All Perceptions are True; 8. The Material Unconscious; Conclusion; Index.