Lucretius

Title: Lucretius
Category: Literature / English | Words: 518 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Lucretius

Lucretius believes that there is a difference between the body and the spirit. He believes that both are material, and that the spirit is mortal and separate organ extending throughout the body. We could think of this in terms of the nervous system, in ever part of our body, from head to toe. “Is part of man, no less than hand or foot or eyes are parts of a whole living creature. (Lucretius, pg.69) He …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 518 total…is an afterlife, so that we will be scared in this life. We will be worried that if we do not behave, we will not be rewarded in the afterlife. Lucretius believes that there is no afterlife, and therefore there is nothing to be afraid of. Thomas Aquinas however, believes that the soul will live on after the body dies. He claims that the human soul is incorruptible, it will not go out of existence.

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