Nail, Thomas

Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion

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ISBN 13:
9781474466646
author:
Nail, Thomas
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2020
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
21.6 x 13.8 centimetres
Genre:
Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Ancient & Classical,
Condition:
New
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£18.73

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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion offers a groundbreaking reading of Lucretius' materialist ethics. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of human suffering in our obsession with stasis, or stillness, and our fear of movement and matter. This new perspective challenges traditional Western thought by proposing a completely materialist, immanent, and naturalistic ethics based on embracing nature's movement. In this second installment of Nail's transformative reading of Lucretius' didactic poem De Rerum Natura, the focus shifts to ethics, covering books 3 and 4. The author explores how Lucretius' ideas can help us survive and live well on our planet by facilitating nature's movement rather than struggling against it. This book is part of a trilogy, with the first volume covering the poem's ontology and the third volume to come covering its final two books.

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