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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"De rerum natura"”.
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Madness in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… accounts of epistemology, disease and emotion in De rerum natura. I situate my general argument within Lucretius’ accounts of the physical and cognitive aspects of emotional disorder.
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Dealing with dvinity in De rerum natura
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura has as one of its main goals the extermination of traditional conceptions of the gods, but gods pervade the poem in a variety of roles, beginning with the very first line, invoking Venus. This report seeks to analyze the ways in which Lucretius exploits popular notions of …
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"The Rhetoric of ""Explanation in Lucretius' ""De Rerum Natura"
… states the question, points out the inadequacies of the treatments it received in the past, and advances the first two theses, announcing the way in which they will be supported in the following three chapters. Chapter One addresses Lucretius' choice of presenting Epicurus' teaching in …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… reproduction, and community in Lucretius’ poem De Rerum Natura and reconsiders the importance of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman …
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Revisión y actualización de la crítica textual lucreciana (a la luz de los manuscritos Valentianus y Casaraugustanus)
Tomando como base el Codex Valentianus, único manuscrito español de Lucrecio, se plantea una revisión del texto del autor, comparándolo con los manuscritos Oblongus y Quadratus de Leyden y con las ediciones existentes del de rerum natura.
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The Problem: The Theory of Ideas in Ancient Atomism and Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze and Guattari famously defined philosophy as the "art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts." This, however, is not the whole story of philosophy. For concepts, according to Deleuze, are formed or invented as solutions to problems. If concepts are the solutions to problems, then …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher powers should be avoided. However, the two poets employ a …
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Making a third place: the science and the poetry of husbandry
… There is an intricate connection between modern science and industrialised agriculture, both of which developed on the basis of particular values associated with Good Husbandry – those which focused on individual innovation, profit-related productivity, quantitative measurement, objective, …
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Lucretius and the Problem of Attention
Book 4 of Lucretius’ de rerum natura (DRN) contains the most complete Epicurean account of perception and thought to survive from antiquity. In the course of the book’s detailed discussion of psychology, Lucretius responds to a variety of philosophical challenges to his physiological account: the …