Rationalism, By Titus Lucretius Carus

Titus Lucretius Carus was a roman poet and a philosopher. He was born in 99B.C. and died 55B.C. As a philosopher he was very well known for his work on Epicureanism, or as we refer to it today, The Nature of Things. After reading his work, I believe that the source of religious belief is born within the fundamental nature of man and religious teaching embodies a deep concern shared by philosophy, for us as humans to possess knowledge of our world as a whole. No politics or laws will keep man from believing what they want, and we will always have a longing for political rule or higher power. The breakdown of society is far worse than society itself.

Lucretius’ account of his work invites the more enterprising atheists to become more informed and familiar with the patina of a respected tradition, blurring their ability to decipher between enlightenment and classical rationalism. In order for enlightenment rationalism to achieve its end, it must fundamentally transform not only the nature of philosophy itself, but also what we as humans understand as the good life. Religion gives rise to and is born with the unreasonable and uninviting desire to make man at home in what seems to be very close to an uncaring world. With this being

There is no religion that worships a stone, or a person who is just like everybody else. But our entire existence we have been trying to find the crack in the stone of morals and have been struggling to find out what we should really believe. Politics will not help us discover this higher power, because it simply does not exist. No Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights is going to help us answer our questions. Coinciding with politics will only allow you to be stressed and distraught with the inside truths each government doctrine brings. The gods would not be following a sheet of paper, and Lucretius used his common sense to realize