![]() ![]() For philosophers and intellectual innovators of the Renaissance, there were suddenly an original and sophisticated system as an alternative to the natural philosophy of Plato and Aristotle taught in scholastic Europe. ![]() Therefore, it was a major event when the humanist Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius' forgotten poem in a German monastery in 1417. The philosophy is practically atheistic, and as such it was suppressed during the Middle Ages.įrom Epicurus' own hand, only a few fragments and letters managed to survive the Middle Ages. Lucretius argues that the gods exist, but that they have nothing to do with our world or the humanity. The world of Epicurus does not need a divine creator, or any divine intervention. This is a didactic poem that also provides a comprehensive view of Epicurus' philosophy - the supposed structure of the Universe, the origin and evolution of the world, how life and civilization developed, and what the lot of humanity is in this world, created by chance and necessity in the blind dance of the atoms. His major work, De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things"), is held as a masterpiece of ancient poetry. 99-55 BC) was a Roman poet and a follower of the Epicurean tradition. ![]()
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