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Part three, further analyses and discussion.

So in this section, we're going to break down our further analysis thoughts into two broad themes. The first, we're going to discuss the overall

metaphysics of Epicurus, our thoughts on that, and in the second part of this third part,

yeah, there's not much order here. It's all chaos and atoms and swerve.

We're going to be looking at ethics and what we might want to take forward from Epicurean philosophy.

So let's jump in with the metaphysics first of all. My first thoughts after reading it, and one of

my favourite parts was talking about atomism. I'm sure it would you get us as well.

Is that what we get from Epicurus is this complete,

independent system, we get a goal of human life, a theory of knowledge, a description of

reality, the evolution of the world, life and everything we find in it.

That was way more than I was expecting when I read a couple of the introductions.

You should be happy and avoid pain and suffering.

I was like, no, I've got a whole theory of the entire world here.

But unfortunately, it depends.

I'd be quite enchanting, wouldn't it if there were all these infinite worlds with gods just dangling around being tranquil.

But unfortunately, this isn't what modern physics teaches us.

First of all, atoms can be broken down protons, neutrons, and electrons.

And then even those can be broken down to further some atomic particles, which exhibit wave characteristics or are made up of quarks as well.

Unfortunately, he's wrong when he says that the atom is something that's indivisible from the get-go.

Modern physics as well would teach us that an electron is considered by lots of quantum

theorists to be an excitation of like a quantum field of the electron field rather than

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