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ЛУКРЕЦИЙ КАР: И РАЦИОНАЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ДЕТЕРМИНИЗМ, И ИРРАЦИО¬НАЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ИНДЕТЕРМИНИЗМ
LUCRETIUS CARUS: RATIONAL DETERMINISM VS IRRATIONAL INDETERMINISM

Author(s): Vasily Goran
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Epicureanism, materialism, free will, atoms, void, unpredictable swerve of atoms.

Summary/Abstract: Rational determinism and irrational indeterminism meet in Lucretius’ materialism for the first time in the history of western philosophy. Having postulated the concept of clinamen, an unpredictable swerve of atoms in indeterminate space, he in fact explains matter’s ability to move by itself, which, in turn, creates fundamental ontological prerequisites for the concept of free will.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 328-338
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian
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