Classical Studies 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Methodism, Astringent, Soranus Of Ephesus
31 May 2012
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From these, we get all the things that we can see with our eyes: they don"t think there is any will behind this that determines how these atoms join. Epicurus and lucretius: the ideas of atoms influenced a roman writer and he wrote a poem on the nature of things. He picked up the idea of atoms and empty space and how things come together by chance. If everything comes together just by chance (also human beings), there is really no life after death. These can only be seen by the mind and through these other corpuscles are a finer substance in fluid like blood: we know him mainly through other writings like celsus and galen. Galen is very unsympathetic to this type of theory because he believes there is no nature that arranges everything for the best. Somehow destructed (get stuck because are too big, move too fast, some sort of object, passage is bent).
