Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Actual Infinity, Lucretius, Epicurus
9 Apr 2020
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Philosophy 1130 - lecture notes : week 2. Bodies are composed of atoms moving freely in the void, colliding and combining. Qualitative properties that our senses apprehend arise from quantitative properties of insensible atoms, their motions and combinations. You see a world of colours, smells, tastes, sounds. Which is nothing like what the world actually is. Instead the world is built only of atoms. Atoms naturally fall through the void and collisions and combinations result from spontaneous and random swerves. Understanding the material origins of human life frees human beings from ignorance and fear of death. Therefore death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. There is no place of eternal punishment", death is only the dissolving of atoms that composed your body for a period of time.
