العنوان بلغة أخرى: |
Happiness and Fate Challenges from a Philosophical Perspective towards the Origin of Things According to Lucretius |
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المصدر: | مجلة أوراق كلاسيكية |
الناشر: | جامعة القاهرة - كلية الآداب - قسم الدراسات اليونانية واللاتينية |
المؤلف الرئيسي: | الكيلاني، محمد جمال (مؤلف) |
المؤلف الرئيسي (الإنجليزية): | Al-Kilany, Mohammed Gamal |
المجلد/العدد: | ع16 |
محكمة: | نعم |
الدولة: |
مصر |
التاريخ الميلادي: |
2019
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الصفحات: | 451 - 495 |
DOI: |
10.21608/acl.2019.89664 |
ISSN: |
2314-7415 |
رقم MD: | 1107664 |
نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
اللغة: | العربية |
قواعد المعلومات: | AraBase |
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رابط المحتوى: |
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المستخلص: |
Happiness is considered to be a human objective any man tries hard to attain in order to feel happy in his life. The concept of happiness has always been the concern of philosophers beginning from Egyptian wise men to Chinese and Indian philosophers. As for Greek philosophers Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle have discussed the issue of happiness; however, they have not approached fate as a separate entity. This is probably due to the fact that fate goddess had special stature and authority undoubted by the public at that time. Concerning the main focus of our present study, it is related to Lucretius (94 BC – 55 BC) who is one of Epicurus’s followers and who is responsible for the spread of Epicurus’s philosophy in the Roman culture throughout the first century BC which is done through his poem “On the Origin of Things”. In his poem, Lucretius tries to investigate man’s happiness achieved by dismissing the feelings of fear of death and gods; he assures the idea that the strength of religion is derived from two main sources: first, man’s wonder and fear of some natural phenomena, especially those destructive by nature such as tempests, earthquakes, epidemics, etc. or second, man’s fear of unusual natural phenomena like eclipses, volcanoes, etc. which may lead to man’s feeling of horror and unhappiness and his aptitude to accept superstitious interpretations propagated by clergy men. The present study arouses the following questions: 1- Why did Lucretius relate human happiness to fate rejection in spite of the fact that the Romans by nature insisted on fate in all human, social, and political fields of their life? 2- Was Lucretius invitation to reject fate challenges derived from his rejection of religion as a whole, though he opened his poem by reaching to the goddess vinos? Or because of philosophical reasons like his criticism to teleological philosophers? Or political reasons due to the disagreement between the public and the Republican in Rome? In order to investigate the above mentioned issues in the present study, the researcher adopts the comparative analytical historical method. The study includes the following points: First: Non-existence of fate for Lucretius. Second: Mortality of the mind for Lucretius. Third: Mortality of the spirit and criticism to the idea of reincarnation. Fourth: Inevitability of the world’s mortality and denial of immortality. Fifth: Man’s free will away from fate. Sixth: The concept of happy life for Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius. |
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ISSN: |
2314-7415 |