
An ancient ethics for modern life Develops an original ethics of motion for the 21st century from Lucretius' didactic poem De Rerum Natura Argues uniquely that Lucretius had a distinct ethical theory from Epicurus Puts Lucretius in conversation with contemporary physics and...

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core...