Lucretius II

Lucretius II
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781474466653
ISBN-13 : 1474466656
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Download or read book Lucretius II written by Thomas Nail and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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