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• Titus Lucretius Carus: "Nature is not unique to the visible world; we must have faith that in other regions of space there exist other earths, inhabited by other peoples and other animals."• Giordano Bruno: "Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
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• Titus Lucretius Carus: "Nature is not unique to the visible world; we must have faith that in other regions of space there exist other earths, inhabited by other peoples and other animals."• Giordano Bruno: "Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
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#Epicurus, the precursor to #Lucretius in the #materialist #philosophical tradition, believed that we need knowledge only because without it we are unhappy. I find it wonderful that following one's curiosity to bring oneself #joy is fundamental to the roots of the Western philosophical tradition that led to #science.
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#Epicurus, the precursor to #Lucretius in the #materialist #philosophical tradition, believed that we need knowledge only because without it we are unhappy. I find it wonderful that following one's curiosity to bring oneself #joy is fundamental to the roots of the Western philosophical tradition that led to #science.
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Education, Philosophy > Greedy Authoritarian Bullshit
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Education, Philosophy > Greedy Authoritarian Bullshit
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When you encounter a young person, introduce them to Lucretius' De Rerum Natura...
... and now they possibly love it even more than you do 😍🥰
#Philosophy #Lucretius #Latin #Epicureanism #Poetry #Physics #AtomicTheory #QuantumPhysics #Cosmology #UniverseOrigins #MustRead #ClassicBooks #LiveLongLearning
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When you encounter a young person, introduce them to Lucretius' De Rerum Natura...
... and now they possibly love it even more than you do 😍🥰
#Philosophy #Lucretius #Latin #Epicureanism #Poetry #Physics #AtomicTheory #QuantumPhysics #Cosmology #UniverseOrigins #MustRead #ClassicBooks #LiveLongLearning
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The Tyee: When John Vaillant Contemplates Catastrophe, We Should Listen https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/05/25/John-Vaillant-Fire-Weather-Fort-McMurray-Alberta/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #Alberta’sPetroleumandNaturalGasConservationBoard #FireWeather:TheMakingofaBeast #AlbertapremierErnestManning #RogerRevelleoceanographer #GuyCallendarengineer #OntheNatureofThings #EdwardTellerH-bomb #TheGlobeandMail #Hudson’sBayCo. #PredatoryDelay #ChisholmFire #FortMcMurray #GilbertPlass #Lucretius
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"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217
More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/
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"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217
More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/
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Here is the last of the new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Lucretius' work On The Nature of Things, this one looking at his interpretation of Epicurus' "death is nothing to us"
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-death-as-nothing-to-us
#Podcast #Philosophy #Epicurean #Lucretius #Death #Mortality #Ethics -
Here is the last of the new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Lucretius' work On The Nature of Things, this one looking at his interpretation of Epicurus' "death is nothing to us"
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-death-as-nothing-to-us
#Podcast #Philosophy #Epicurean #Lucretius #Death #Mortality #Ethics -
Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast on book 4 of Lucretius poem On The Nature of Things. This one discusses the mortality of both body and mind or spirit from an Epicurean perspective
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-mortality-of-mind-and-spirit
#Podcast #Philosophy #Death #Lucretius #Epicureanism #Mortality -
Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast on book 4 of Lucretius poem On The Nature of Things. This one discusses the mortality of both body and mind or spirit from an Epicurean perspective
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-mortality-of-mind-and-spirit
#Podcast #Philosophy #Death #Lucretius #Epicureanism #Mortality -
Continuing on in the series of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on book 4 of Lucretius' On The Nature of Things, here's one discussing what he takes to be mistakes about the human mind and vital spirit
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-errors-about-mind-spirit-and-body
#Podcast #Philosophy #Lucretius #Epicureanism #Mind -
Continuing on in the series of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on book 4 of Lucretius' On The Nature of Things, here's one discussing what he takes to be mistakes about the human mind and vital spirit
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-errors-about-mind-spirit-and-body
#Podcast #Philosophy #Lucretius #Epicureanism #Mind -
Here's the second in the set of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on book 4 of Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things, this one discussing the elements he takes to comprise mind and vital spirit
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-elements-of-mind-and-spirit
#Podcast #Lucretius #Philosophy #Epicureanism #Elements -
Here's the second in the set of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on book 4 of Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things, this one discussing the elements he takes to comprise mind and vital spirit
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-elements-of-mind-and-spirit
#Podcast #Lucretius #Philosophy #Epicureanism #Elements -
Starting a new set of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things, focusing in on book 4. Here's the first!
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-what-mind-and-spirit-are
#Podcast #Philosophy #Lucretius #Mind #Epicurean #Spirit #Consciousness #Materialism -
Starting a new set of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things, focusing in on book 4. Here's the first!
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-what-mind-and-spirit-are
#Podcast #Philosophy #Lucretius #Mind #Epicurean #Spirit #Consciousness #Materialism -
"Thus time and again the Earth has deserved and holds
the name of Mother, for she herself created the human genus
and at definite times poured into existence every animal
that runs wild near and far on the high mountains
together with the birds of the air in endless forms."#Lucretius anticipating #Darwin on #evolution
A chapter of my translation and comment of De Rerum Natura:
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In January 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered #DeRerumNatura (written by #Lucretius in the 1st century BC outlining #Epicureanism) in a German monastic library.
That copy was copied from an earlier 9th century text corrected by an Irish monk, #Dúngal.
Dúngal also wrote a book explaining to #Charlemagne how two solar eclipses could occur in the same year, and, incidentally, the structure of the #cosmos as he understood it.
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In January 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered #DeRerumNatura (written by #Lucretius in the 1st century BC outlining #Epicureanism) in a German monastic library.
That copy was copied from an earlier 9th century text corrected by an Irish monk, #Dúngal.
Dúngal also wrote a book explaining to #Charlemagne how two solar eclipses could occur in the same year, and, incidentally, the structure of the #cosmos as he understood it.
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Here's a list of what I've been working on/thinking about for the last week. https://clerestory.netlify.app/work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20221129
Featuring #duBoisReymond #Kant #Graeber #Lucretius #Hesiod #Spinoza #Bacon #McGilchrist #Arendt #Geertz #Piaget #Einstein #Wertheimer #Solon #Confucius #Buddhism #complexity #Logos #Althusser #Nietzsche #Spinoza #Marx #Schopenhauer #Montaigne #Kuhn #Nagel #Pythagoras #Popper #Gödel and more!
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Here's a list of what I've been working on/thinking about for the last week. https://clerestory.netlify.app/work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20221129
Featuring #duBoisReymond #Kant #Graeber #Lucretius #Hesiod #Spinoza #Bacon #McGilchrist #Arendt #Geertz #Piaget #Einstein #Wertheimer #Solon #Confucius #Buddhism #complexity #Logos #Althusser #Nietzsche #Spinoza #Marx #Schopenhauer #Montaigne #Kuhn #Nagel #Pythagoras #Popper #Gödel and more!
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Mother of us all, pleasure of humans and gods,
nourishing Venus, who, under the gliding stars,
vitalize the open sea and the fruitful lands,
because of you every living species
is conceived and born into the light of the sun:
at your approach the winds flee you and the clouds
scatter away, to you the prolific earth
offers lovely flowers, to you the surface of the sea smiles
and the serene sky shines with suffused light.
[#Lucretius, De Rerum Natura]https://duplavis.xyz/index.php/2023/11/07/venus/
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Mother of us all, pleasure of humans and gods,
nourishing Venus, who, under the gliding stars,
vitalize the open sea and the fruitful lands,
because of you every living species
is conceived and born into the light of the sun:
at your approach the winds flee you and the clouds
scatter away, to you the prolific earth
offers lovely flowers, to you the surface of the sea smiles
and the serene sky shines with suffused light.
[#Lucretius, De Rerum Natura]http://duplavis.com/the-nature-of-things/venus
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Still, it's good to know that #Bacon praised #Democritus for denying #teleology; if both #Democritus and #Lucretius deny it, then it seems like #Epicurus probably did too? @philosophy
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Still, it's good to know that #Bacon praised #Democritus for denying #teleology; if both #Democritus and #Lucretius deny it, then it seems like #Epicurus probably did too? @philosophy
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@mostaurelius Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
The steady drip of water
causes stone to hollow
and yield.
#Lucretius
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@mostaurelius Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
The steady drip of water
causes stone to hollow
and yield.
#Lucretius
Book I, line 313 (tr. Stallings) -
@bryankam #Lucretius 4.823-857
"Such explanations put effect for cause and are based on perverted reasoning; since nothing is born in us simply in order that we may use it, but that which is born creates the use. "
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@bryankam #Lucretius 4.823-857
"Such explanations put effect for cause and are based on perverted reasoning; since nothing is born in us simply in order that we may use it, but that which is born creates the use. "
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The appendix to Part I of #Spinoza's Ethics constitutes one of the most concerted arguments against #teleology in nature that I've found before #Darwin.
The other major one I have looked at is dependent origination in #buddhism which I have written about here https://bit.ly/3glD7bD
Do you know any others in #philosophy or elsewhere?
I'm aware I need to look more into #Hume #Bacon #Lucretius and #Pyrrho and I'm currently deep in #Nietzsche
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The appendix to Part I of #Spinoza's Ethics constitutes one of the most concerted arguments against #teleology in nature that I've found before #Darwin.
The other major one I have looked at is dependent origination in #buddhism which I have written about here https://bit.ly/3glD7bD
Do you know any others in #philosophy or elsewhere?
I'm aware I need to look more into #Hume #Bacon #Lucretius and #Pyrrho and I'm currently deep in #Nietzsche
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I really want to talk to someone about #Spinoza's anti-teleological view, which #Schopenhauer tries to blame on a wish to avoid "speculative theology."
I think it's the opposite; Spinoza's theological view comes as a result of his seeing through the anthropomorphic illusion of teleology in nature. In this way, his insight is similar to the #Buddha #Nietzsche #Darwin and #Taoism.
Possibly also #Epicurus #Democritus et al; I have yet to read enough #Lucretius to say for sure.
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I'm re-advertising on Mastodon my translation and comment of passages of Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura", starting with the "Swerve":
http://duplavis.com/the-nature-of-things/swerveEverything in the Universe is made of atoms, the infinite variety of Nature is produced by random swerves.
#lucretius #epicurus #swerve #charvaka
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#Philosophy : #Nietzsche #Schopenhauer #Spinoza #Pyrrho #Pascal #Montaigne #Lucretius #Elias #Althusser #Jaynes #McGilchrist, and I'm also interested in #Darwin #Epicurus #Zhuangzi #Laozi #Taoism #Buddhism #Helmholtz
I studied #literature : #Thackeray #Tolstoy #GeorgeEliot #Strindberg #Celine #Dostoevsky #Pushkin #Chekhov #Rimbaud #HartCrane #ThomasHardy #DHLawrence
Also love #film : #Bergman #MichaelPowell #Ozu #Mizoguchi #Fellini #Cassavetes #Losey #Wilder #Bresson #Truffaut #Marker
