In his epistemology he emphasized the senses, and his Principle of Multiple Explanations is an early contribution to the philosophy of science: if several theories are consistent with the observed data, retain them all. Legacy Elements of Epicurean philosophy have resonated and resurfaced in various ...
The young Marx – the Marx of the Paris Manuscripts and Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right –writes a great deal about Hegelian philosophy and the criticism of “religion”. For whatever reason, the late Marx – the Marx of Capital –largely leaves that topic ...
Atomism - Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius: From the ancient Greeks through the 16th century, atomism remained mainly philosophical. It is characteristic of the importance of Greek philosophy that, already in the foregoing exposition of the different a