https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 In Lucretius' poem, the knowledge of natural phenomena offers an understanding of things capable of freeing human beings from ignorance and fears. This prescriptive dimension of nature seems foreign to modernity. In the present work, we start from this presumed difference between the two forms of investigation to show that science, despite the communis opinio, actually possesses a normative charge. In the last section, we will consider the prescriptive dimension of contemporary science to tackle the issues emerging from the current ecological crisis. Numéros Lucretius: Unfounded Nature Readings fr ven., 09 févr. 2024 15:13:24 +0100 ven., 09 févr. 2024 15:13:43 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 0