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- Welcome and news / requests for new topics. We’ll continue to deal with individual topics as they occur. Just message me and we will set up an agenda each week that allows for new topics.
- Every session let’s try to cover questions like:
- What is the context of this section?
- Why included at this point in the presentation?
- What are the major points Lucretius is making?
- What are the implications of these points?
- New Topics / Announcements:
- 5. For a future discussion let’s take up Epicurus’ advice regarding sexual relations. What articles are available on this? (Robert may have some references.)
- This week we will continue with Lucretius Book 1:184.
- 184 as to “rate” of change being fostered from its own substance.
- How would Memmius have viewed these arguments?
- Addresses the question of the deist / clock-maker argument, which holds that god may have created the universe but then stepped away.
- 192 - Combination of letters to words is analogous with atoms forming bodies. Origin of all is material.
- 199-208 - Other examples of regularity. (humans don’t grow into giants and don’t live for generations; tilling soil produces better results)
