Category: Physics
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! Down With The Geometers!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! David Furley, in his Two Studies in the Greek Atomists, directs our attention to both “indivisible...
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“Will We Be The First Martians?”
An article in USAToday entitled “Will We Be The First Martians” brings to mind an application of an important passage from Lucretius. Just as mankind today is about to take...
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Food For Thought On “Images” From the Age of Epicureanism
We don’t often discuss the Epicurean view of “images” anymore, but certainly Epicurus considered them significant, and discussion of them occupies a good deal of space in Lucretius’ De Rerum...
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It All Comes Down To This. Take Your Stand, And Know Why You Take It.
Genesis 1: In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. Koran 2.29: How can you deny Allah and you were without life, and He gave you life?...
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Epicurean Physics
The validity of Epicurean philosophy is grounded squarely on a number of core observations about the nature of the universe. Of these, no principle is more fundamental than the observation...