Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion

A pathbreaking new reading of Lucretius' materialist ethics

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 of all these ethical ills in our obsession with stasis, our fear of movement and our hatred of matter.

Instead of trying to transcend nature with our minds, e...