Q&A: The Three Principles of Epicurus and Lucretius

Overview 2-5, LS § 4 "Principle of protection" In these paragraphs, what are the three principles claimed by Epicura and Lucretius? (I) Things are not because there is nothing, nothing. (Ii) Things are not changed to things, things are not literally eliminated. (Iii) the whole will continue to be the same and still the same; this whole will not change, and external things can not be introduced to change it. Clearly, things do not appear in anything, each comes from a specific thing - tree nuts, nuts, fruits, birds in eggs, eggs in birds.

Like many former Socratic philosophers, Epicuras believes that the universe consists of materials called atoms and voids. The focussed epiculus, Lucretius, clarifies the naturalism philosophy of Epicurean through teaching of maxim, "I can not be created because nothing is things, things will degrade to nothing at all I can not do it. " God does not interfere with human life This is eternal and death is nothing but the collapse of the assembly of atoms. It is important to emphasize that the overall structure of epicureanism is integrated and intended to fulfill its main ethical goals. Epicurean's naturalistic scientific theory depends on his understanding of happiness, that is, acquisition of happiness, correct understanding

According to Aristotle (Physics 1.4), a natural philosopher. Lucretius emphasized the importance of this idea to his master Epicurus. He established his physics based on this same principle (according to Diogenes Laertius 10.24.38). But this doctrine of natural philosophy is also a methodological principle of philosophical reasoning. This is because the principles of physical production are transformed into cognitive production for ease of occurring in these problems. Consequently, substantive conclusions can not be rationally endorsed unless substantive discussions are invoked within its support, as problems must be brought about from the material world.

Ancient Greek nuclear scientists such as Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus foresaw later materialist. The Latin poetry of Lucretius De Rerum Natura (99 BC - 55 BC) reflects the mechanical philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus. According to this view, everything that exists is all material and ineffective, and all phenomena are generated by different movements and aggregates of basic substance particles called "atoms" (which means literally "indivisible") . De Rerum Natura provides a dynamic explanation of phenomena such as erosion, evaporation, wind, sound, etc. For the first time in Lucretius's work, the famous principle of "You can not touch the body, but the body will touch" appears. However, Democritus and Epicurus did not adhere to the monostonic ontology. Because they argued the ontological separation of matter and space, that is, space is the "other" of existence and the definition of "materialism" is more than this range is wider .