Tag: Lucretius
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La Naturaleza Continua o Discreta?
A Spanish translation of “Is Nature Continuous or Discrete?: How the Atomist Error was Born,” originally published here at Aeon has just been translated into Spanish by Julian Martin Berrio and published with http://www.elmalpensante.com You can also download it here
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Poetry in Motion: On A.R. Ammons’ “Corsons Inlet”
The stanza formation ripples, rises, and falls like waves. The poem both speaks about and performs the movement of the sea, dunes, reeds, birds, and fish at the same time. Form yields to the material process of undulation and continuous deformation. Life and death become the Janus faces of entropy. In nature there are…
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The Return to Lucretius II
Lucretius’ method of philosophical poetry is a radical departure from the Greek tradition of philosophy from Thales to Aristotle and Epicurus (with the rare exception of Empedocles, Parmenides, and Xenophanes). Almost without exception, Homeric-style poetry was reduced to irrational and sensuous mythology by Greek philosophers eager to define their new abstraction and idealism against the straw man…
The Philosophy of Movement 