Abstract

LEMGRUBER, Márcio Silveira. When the world became an opened labyrinth. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2016, vol.30, suppl., pp.269-288. ISSN 1982-596x.  https://doi.org/10.14393/REVEDFIL.issn.0102-6801.v30nEspeciala2016-p269a288.

In the present article, by rescuing the work De rerumnatura (On the nature of things) written by Roman poet/philosopher Titus Lucretius Caro, I present the influence (and resistance) of epicurean philosophy in the concept of modern world and man. I introduce traces of the influence in the works of Montaigne, Shakespeare, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo Galilei, as the basis for the construction of the root metaphor of the world as an open labyrinth that started to emerge (or re-emerge).

Keywords : Theory of argumentation; Metaphor; Epicureanism; Lucretius.

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