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lucretius:agonizing doubts of logic and reason

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Dave

The clash of major and minor keys is heard throughout his poem, The Nature of Things; again and again, in a passage that opens with serene confidence in Epicurean logic and the liberating power of the intellect , Lucretius will … Continue reading →

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the chance swerve: visions of madness

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

One curious statement about Lucretius appears, not in any contemporary or near-contemporary writer, but in the Christian chronicle of Saint-Jerome: that he was driven mad by a love philter administered by his wife, wrote his famous poem, The Nature of … Continue reading →

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boutique atheism : babel banter

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Dave

What are the limits of scientific rationalism? But what actually is atheism, besides an ecological and scientific dirt disher despite Chris Hitchens perhaps stuck in limbo, a purgatory of the missionary position somewhere in rhetorical rebuttal to the anal perversions … Continue reading →