TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morel,Pierre-Marie
TI  - Body and Cosmology in Epicurus' Physics
PY  - 2003///.
							
N1  - 73
N2  - Ancient atomists face the following difficulty: how can the becoming of worlds and compounds be explained by the elementary bodies, when these – the atoms – do not possess any cosmogonic property? Epicurus’answer, according to Letter to Herodotus, § 45, is a subtle account of atomic causality: atoms are not only components or material causes, but also, through a spontaneous process of selection, the real agents of the production of worlds and compounds
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-metaphysique-et-de-morale-2003-1-page-33?lang=en
ER  -