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Against Teleology and Abstraction

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Are the Epicurean Documents Directly to Lucretius Napson?

These are guys that kind of were persecuted by the dominant philosophies for a very long time. Whether epicurus napson directly to lucretius or not is an open question. All the epicurean documents were housed in herculaneum, which is very close to vesuviusandeyswhe that volcano went up and it just buried a ton of the epicuean documents. So there actually is still like some chance that epicurean papers will be found through modern restoration techniques. And i think they influence not only spinoza, but that both lucretius and spinoza influence darwin. Because darwin has this idea that what you see is not necessarily

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