S2E19 Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom: A Conversation with Spencer Klavan
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The Rise of Atomism
I want to talk a little bit more about kind of the hedonistic. I was going to say undercurrent overcurrent I guess overcurrent yeah current current in this, because I mean you made a very interesting point that we're sort of in an epicurean age now. Epicurus for the listeners who is an inheritor in many ways of the atomism of earlier theorists like democracy and and Lucippus proposes what in antiquity is actually a kind of daring and sort of unusual thesis. This is all part of the Hellenistic turn in in Greek philosophy after Aristotle basically there's not an inheritor to that sort of unitary tradition as as we see it.
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