The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Two)

More on Lucretius’s poem about Epicurean science: On the Nature of Things from the first century BCE. We talk more about how macroscopic phenomena are supposed to come out of the interaction of atoms, including mind and its processes of knowledge and illusion, including the illusion of love. One conclusion: life after death is not possible. Can the properties of the atoms themselves be explained? Listen to <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/12/31/ep206-1-lucretius/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">part one</a> first or get the unbroken, ad-free <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/12/31/ep206-lucretius-citizen/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Citizen Edition</a>; this will also get you the <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/01/12/ep206-follow-up-lucretius-citizen/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">follow-up discussion</a>. <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Please support PEL</a>. End song: "Came Round" by Mark Lint. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/mix-9-came-round-22827233" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Read about it</a> and <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/mark-lint-dry-folk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">get the new album</a>.

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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