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Η εισαγωγή των σπερμάτων στην οντολογία του Επίκουρου: Μια ερμηνευτική προσέγγιση
Αραβαντινού - Μπουρλογιάννη, Άννα
According to the classic Lucretius΄ interpretation of Epicurean seeds (Letter to Herodotus, 32) they are considered to be "semina certa" of all living beings, able to put a limit to the chance coming-to-be of anything from anything else. Yet this indeed ambiguus term "seeds" is used here in a very general, let΄s say, anaxagorean sense, as seeds of all things, that is as elementary entities capable to "reproduce" —in a clearly metaphorical sense— all composite things similar to them. Such a hypothesis leads to the conclusion that Epicurus in his ontology, apart from the use of the atoms, he also accepts the seeds as structural entities of the formally definite things.
Academy of Athens
