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Bookmark or Share- De rerum natura - WikipediaLucretius identifies the supernatural with the notion that the deities created our world or interfere with its operations in some way.
- Lucretius - WikipediaLucretius was an early thinker in what grew to become the study of evolution. He believed that nature experiments endlessly across the aeons, and the organisms that adapt best to their environment have the best chance of surviving.
- Lucretius | Roman Epicurean Poet & Philosopher | BritannicaLucretius was a Latin poet and philosopher known for his single, long poem, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). The poem is the fullest extant statement of the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.
- Lucretius - Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyLucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. Very little is known of the poet’s life, though a sense of his character and personality emerges vividly from his poem.
- Lucretius - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyLucretius’ early modern reception is now a flourishing scholarly enterprise and most recent collections of essays on Lucretius have a substantial section devoted to this aspect (for a start, see Gillespie and Hardie 2007 and Mitsis 2020).
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