Lucretius

1) The early republic’s social division, which used to determine the shape of politic, and the great power of the senate has led to the demise of the Roman Republic. The people of the Roman Republic were divided according to the social status, most of the political power was in the hand of the Patricians, who were the members of certain elite families. The divided social status has given the most of power directly to the patrician men, who had dominated the Roman republic on both political and…

Of all the means through which humans perceive the world, sight is perhaps the most important. It is our primary means of understanding the physical nature of our surroundings, both immediate and distant. It is only natural that the great thinkers of antiquity were curious about the nature of vision, and inseparably, that of light itself. In the manner characteristic of ancient science, many common ideas about optics were “hit or miss”, so to speak. Certain Greek thinkers had hypotheses about…

The next major argument in the world of critical analysis rests in the amount of literary references used in Donne’s work. Some critics pronounce that Donne believed in new ideas and cultivated them, using literary references as models for his own poetry. Some regard that Donne was not only learned, but used science and mythology to make a specific point in his poetry, appealing to a wider range of critical thinkers. Others disagree with both statements, saying that Donne’s success was merely…

In the Roman period, many philosopher and educators such as Cicero, Lucretius, and Quintilian, and other early Christian philosophers became the forerunners of education. During the medieval ages, the scholastic education came to power. Famous philosophers such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, John Dun Scotus and William…

Although we live in a very modern world, where technology precedes everything, we are still connected to the past somehow. Today we refer to the Internet, and sometimes books to get specific knowledge and information about a certain field or topic. This information could be about a certain culture, languages, religious beliefs or traditions and etc. But have we ever wondered where this information came from? How do people know about traditions and beliefs that come from the past? One of the many…

alongside those general thoughts in the article, “The Nature of Things” it was stated “if men saw that there was an end in sight to trials and tribulations; they would find the power to fight against the superstitions and the threats of priests.”(Lucretius pg.6). This correlates with the idea that it is in our nature as humans to react a certain way towards nature. With our minds, we can send signals to our bodies to express an emotion, experience birth and death, and to engage with other people…