Lucretius: Books I-II If Lucretius believes that everything in the universe is made up of either matter or space, then what are emotions and feelings? In book I, Lucretius states that “all nature as it is in itself consists of two things-bodies and the vacant space in which the bodies are situated and through which they move in different directions”. (Lines 419-422) If this were true, then where would emotions be classified? They are neither …showed first 75 words of 257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 257 total…There must be a third entity that causes feeling and drives people to do what they do. Also what are thoughts? People’s thoughts and ideas are not physical and they are not empty space, so what are they? I think that Lucretius did not consider everything in the universe when he made his statement. If Lucretius believes that everything in nature consists of either matter or empty space, then what are emotions and feelings?