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Paperback Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion Book

ISBN: 1474434673

ISBN13: 9781474434676

Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion

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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.This means that Lucretius was not the revolutionary harbinger of modern science as Greenblatt and others have argued;...

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