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dc.contributor.authorTraver Vera, Ángel Jacinto
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T10:56:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-27T19:06:11Z-
dc.date.available2019-10-23T10:56:44Z
dc.date.available2020-08-27T19:06:11Z-
dc.date.issued2019-
dc.identifier.isbn978-989-26-1765-7 (PDF)
dc.identifier.isbn978-989-26-1763-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/47492-
dc.description.abstractThis chapter discusses the atomistic premises against the existence of ghosts. According to the traditional Graeco-Roman religion and other philosophical doctrines, such as the Pythagorean, the Platonic, and the Stoic, ghosts do exist and serve as medium between the living world and the afterlife. Against this widespread belief, the first Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus, and their followers, Epicurus and Lucretius, argued that ghosts are not the dead who return from beyond, but physical and material emissions (simulacra) of people which persisted in the outside world and sometimes inside the mind, having been previously printed on it. This interpretation fits into the broader context of their philosophical system, which aims at delivering men from fear of the gods, of death and of the afterlife, with the eudemonistic purpose of achieving emotional peace.eng
dc.language.isoeng-
dc.publisherImprensa da Universidade de Coimbrapor
dc.rightsopen access-
dc.subjectAtomistseng
dc.subjectsimulacraeng
dc.subjectLeucippuseng
dc.subjectDemocrituseng
dc.subjectEpicuruseng
dc.subjectLucretiuseng
dc.titleThe atomistic denial of ghosts: from Democritus to Lucretiuspor
dc.typebookPartpor
uc.publication.firstPage91-
uc.publication.lastPage104-
uc.publication.locationCoimbrapor
dc.identifier.doi10.14195/978-989-26-1765-7_6-
uc.publication.digCollectionPBpor
uc.publication.orderno7-
uc.publication.areaArtes e Humanidadespor
uc.publication.bookTitleVisitors from beyond the grave: ghosts in world literature-
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