| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using his imagination and logic, Lucretius developed an atomistic cosmology in which countless universes with infinite expanse are formed from atoms and emptiness, which are repeatedly dismantled and reborn, with rational persuasiveness based on his daily experiences and observations of the living natural world. He presented the physiology of human senses, sleep, dreams, and love, as well as the mechanism of heredity, depicted the development of human society and civilization, and rationally explained thunderstorms, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and even pestilence, which had been thought to be the work of the gods, in terms of atoms and emptiness. Lucretius was neither an atheist nor a hedonistic hedonist as criticized in the Western Christian world. I was able to compile the results of my research, including the history of his reception, and publish the first commentary on him in Japan.
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