The Epicurean philosophy presented by Lucretius in the De Rerum Natura places the understanding of nature at the basis of human happiness and freedom from fear: only through an unprejudiced investigation of natural phenomena and their hidden causes can it become possible to assign to humans an ethics capable of making them free in their actions and, at the same time, capable of enabling them to live in harmony with the laws of the universe. Lucretius makes natural science, therefore, into the foundation for ethics, culture, and even politics.
...MoreReview Fabio Tutrone (2018) Review of "La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio: filosofia e scienza nell'antica Roma". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 93-100).
Review Christoph Lüthy (2016) Review of "La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio: filosofia e scienza nell'antica Roma". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 250-253).
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