The Swoop and Surge of Life: Lucretius on Ethics in Motion

Ethics, power and a life in motion.

Will Buckingham
8 min readJul 14, 2022

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Botticelli, Venus and Mars. c. 1485. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Love, Strife and The Mad Machinery of War

In his great poem, On the Nature of the Universe (De Rerum Natura), Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius (born c. 100 BCE) asks what it means to live fully in a world where everything is always in motion. A follower…

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Will Buckingham

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham