Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 457 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110768114
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9783110768084
Series Statement:
CICERO Volume 5
Content:
Many scholars have studied the dialogue between the Epicurean tradition and Pierre Gassendi. However, no one so far has ever attempted to conduct a full analysis of the latter’s specific reception of Lucretius. The book attempts to show that Gassendi was the first to discuss almost the whole De rerum natura, as part of an ambitious project. He sought to provide a Christianized version of Lucretius’ theory or to develop an atomistic worldview “freed” from the many dangerous errors that were often imputed to atomism (impiety, debauchery, and irrationality). In particular, Gassendi developed a dialectical strategy that led him to recover a providential atomism, an Epicurean psychology that saves the immortality of the soul, and a Christian hedonism from the De rerum natura. The last goal was especially important. Gassendi here emerges as the culmination of a tradition of Christian philosophers, like Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus of Rotterdam, who have tried to merge Epicurean hedonism with the Christian religion. The volume could therefore attract both scholars of Antiquity and Renaissance/modern philosophy. It is also a rewarding reading for scholars of the reception of Latin poetry from a philosophical perspective
Content:
The book provides the first systematic reconstruction of the reception of Lucretius’ theological and ethical verses in the work of the early modern philosopher Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). It argues that the latter was the first to "e and discuss almost the entire De rerum natura, intending to develop a modified version of Epicurean philosophy, compatible with the new science and the religious/ethical demands of Christianity
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 347-399
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110767216
Additional Edition:
ISBN 311076721X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Piergiacomi, Enrico, 1986 - ›Amicus Lucretius‹ Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022 ISBN 9783110767216
Additional Edition:
ISBN 311076721X
Language:
Italian
Keywords:
Lucretius Carus, Titus v94-v55 De rerum natura
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Rezeption
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Gassendi, Pierre 1592-1655
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Philosophie
DOI:
10.1515/9783110768084
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