In Our Time: Philosophy cover image

Epicureanism

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

Is Epicureanism in the West?

When did epicureanism re emerge in the west and become effective again? Could we go round the table? In 14 17, poggio, who was a former papal secretary of the now disgraced pope john the 20 third, had time on his hands. And he pulled down a copy of de rerum detura which had been gathering dust for hundreds of years. But it's really with the rise of the new sciencea at the end of the sixteenth and in the seventeenth centuries that you get the philosopher scientists like bacon, galileo, ag endi an france thinking that epicurean system is congenial to mechanistic theories they were developing.

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner