With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... If such a deity existed, "then all kinds could spring from any source: they"d need no seed. Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for things are unique.(5)" Instead of pointing to some supernatural force as the source of the universe, the Epicurean explains the presence of our universe as the "right atoms in right se...

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