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- W4289803211 abstract "This book examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists — the Greek philosopher Epicurus and his Latin successor, Titus Carus Lucretius — in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the 17th century and the evolution of natural science, and moral and political philosophy. The book shows how the distinctive Epicurean image of the natural world as a product of time and chance — unsupervised by any god or gods — and of the social world as a sphere of human invention and moral equality, took hold in philosophy, and how Epicureanism is an acknowledged and often unacknowledged presence in the writings of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, Boyle, Locke, Leibniz, and Berkeley. With chapters devoted to Epicurean physics and cosmology, the corpuscularian or ‘mechanical’ philosophy, the question of the mortality of the soul, the grounds of political authority, the contested nature of the experimental philosophy, sensuality, curiosity, and the role of pleasure and utility in ethics, the book makes a case for the significance of materialism in 17th-century philosophy, and for its continued importance in the contemporary world, without underestimating the depth and significance of the opposition to it in the Platonic and Stoic traditions. Lucretius's great poem, On the Nature of Things, supplies the frame of reference for this extended inquiry into the origins of modern philosophy." @default.
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- W4289803211 title "Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity" @default.
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