Lucretius Essay

Exposing the Falseness of Truth in On the Nature of the Universe         Truth is in the eye of the beholder. Or is it? Questions regarding the nature of truth have always been central to not only philosophers, but all men (and women, of course) who possess any desire for knowledge. For while truth itself is an elusive concept, it is also the underlying theme of all science -- which is the basis of knowledge -- and so the seeker of learning must first discover his own truth about the world;

Plato and Aristotle continued to think about what the good life looks like; although Plato believed humans should aim to be just and Aristotle argued for happiness, they both agreed on the importance of education to improve one’s life. Furthermore, Lucretius discusses the good life in The Nature of Things, and he asserts that people should strive to be happy and should aim to lead simple lives. Virgil also addresses the issue of the good life via Aeneas’ journey to found Rome. Aeneas’s perils reflect

Socrates, preparing for death, explains to his friends that he is not afraid because he has achieved a true philosopher’s goal. True philosophers, he says, look forward to death because it is the moment when the soul separates from the needs of the body. He believes the search for the truth will come to an end and he will be welcomed by Gods and friends in the afterlife. This is because the soul is immortal. His friends become skeptical, and don’t believe that this is true. Socrates goes on to provide

The Matrix is a film about the enslavement of humankind by artificial intelligence, sentient beings, with mechanical bodies, created by people to service humanity, and the discovery of a person, Neo, that possesses abilities that can defeat the Artificial Intelligence and manumit humanity. The majority of human beings have their consciousness/minds trapped within the Matrix, a computer simulated world in which their minds are born, live in, and die, while their bodies are connected to it via cerebral

attention to what exactly a heaven looks like and what happens to the person who is entering into this heaven. These two themes relate to readings that have been discussed in class recently. They include Thomas Mores, Utopia, and the thoughts of Lucretius. They both have their ideas about what heaven would be like and how the soul and body change or doesn’t change when transitioning there. With these readings, an understanding of human nature and life after death are anticipated, corresponding with

Thucydides wrote his take on it. In his work “The History of the Peloponnesian War” Thucydides talks about the social and political consequences of the plague, a personal account on the experiences he lived through. Anywhere during 99-55 BCE poet Lucretius had his work “On the Nature of the Universe” end with an account of the Athenian plague. Lucretius’s account was nearly an exact translation of Thucydides’ description of the plague. But whereas Thucydides wrote historically and real on his experiences

changed the way the old world was and brought forth what the new world is. This novel focuses on 3 scholars, Poggio, Lucretius and Greenblatt. Poggio was responsible for recovering a huge number of older Latin manuscripts, which he found in ancient

In the book The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt brings us back to the past to the time of the discovery of On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and exhibits how it has shaped our world. Going into this book I did not know what to expect and the first chapter did not help me figure out how it was going to be because I felt you had to read farther in the book to be able to get into the topic. Specifically, when it starts off by describing Poggio I did not know how it was going to relate or how it was going

knowledgeable, be teachers for their children or writers for their books. Greek slaves were also responsible for teaching the Romans how to write. Caesar wrote "Commentaries on Gallic War", Catullus wrote of beauty and grace, and Roman philosopher Lucretius (50 BC) wrote, "Yet neither is anything so easy,

In comparing ancient skeptics Titus Lucretius Carcus and Wang Ch’ung they come from two different backgrounds one of higher education another that had no former learning or training yet have great theories of mythology and philosophy of what was to be or could be in a person life. Special fears that shaped their lives and caused them to be superstitious and even skeptical in the way they lived their own lives. Skepticism is considered “is an attitude of doubting the truth of something, such as a