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LUCRETIUS AGAINST SCEPTICS

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Wciorka W.
Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
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2008
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vol. 6
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issue 1(19)
107-116
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In 'De rerum natura' (4.469n) Lucretius gives a brief argument against the thesis of 'global' scepticism (i.e. that nothing is, or could be, known) which in his view is self-refuting. The paper presents a detailed analysis of the passage and puts it in a historical context. It is tentatively shown that, pace some modern commentators, the objection could hardly be regarded as aimed at Metrodorus of Chios, a forerunner of Hellenistic scepticism.
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TWO RELIGIONS OF MATERIALISM: LUCRETIUS AND LEM

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Okolowski P.
Edukacja Filozoficzna
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2008
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issue 46
123-136
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The author presents in this paper (and in few others) the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem as Neo-Lucretianism and calls Lem as a Lucretius of the 20th century. The article demonstrates pararell strains in their views on death. Lem - the atheist in common parlance - on Christian point of view is the man of 'strange faith'. There is an eschatology in his outlook, though warldly (finitistic?) one, which has clearly Lucretian nature. In opinion of both there are two attributes of the Cosmos: extermination (Lucretius says 'mors inmortalis', Lem - holocaust) and creation. Mortal human finds comfort in an idea that 'other worlds' come into being in dead Cosmos eternally and 'different minds' are born in them. Eschatological hope lies in thought that antonymous values will be always realized because each kind of mind realizes some part of the class of them. Lem's naturalism breaks in this point.
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