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Lucretius II
Intro -- Lucretius II -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation and Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Book III -- 1. A Matter of Desire -- 2. Kinophobia -- 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason -- 4. Dark Materialism -- 5. The Ethics of Motion -- Book IV -- 6. Ethics of the...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
: Edinburgh University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6145044 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Lucretius II -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation and Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Book III -- 1. A Matter of Desire -- 2. Kinophobia -- 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason -- 4. Dark Materialism -- 5. The Ethics of Motion -- Book IV -- 6. Ethics of the Simulacrum -- 7. All Perceptions are True -- 8. The Material Unconscious -- Conclusion -- Index. 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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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781474466653 |
