Lucretius i: an ontology of motion
Auteur :
Nail, Thomas
Éditeur :
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN :
9781474434676
Date de publication :
8 févr. 2018
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Poids :
290 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.