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## An ancient ethics for modern life * Develops an original ethics of motion for the 21st century from Lucretius' didactic poem De Rerum Natura * Argues uniquely that Lucretius had a distinct ethical theory from Epicurus * Puts Lucretius in conversation with contemporary physics and new materialism ## __Lucretius II__ launch offer * Find out where it all started: we're offering a free ebook of __Lucretius I__ when you buy a copy of __Lucretius II__. Just add a copy of __Lucretius II__ (paperback, hardback or ebook) and a __Lucretius I__ ebook to your basket, and enter the code **Lucretius2** when you check out. [Visit the webpage for __Lucretius I__](/book-lucretius-i.html%22) Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of all these ethical ills in our obsession with stasis, our fear of movement and our hatred of matter. Instead of trying to transcend nature with our minds, escape it with our immortal souls and dominate it with our technologies, Lucret

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Author

Thomas Nail

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474466639

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Literary Fiction