Bishop Robert Barron on Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve

My experience reading Greenblatt's book was similar to the Bishop's.

Jefferson was more Thomist than he was Epicurean.  Natural theology is Jefferson's concern, and the place of Lucretius's (nascent and undeveloped) theory in his thinking is minor. Atomism is  subsumed in Jefferson's larger interest in studying nature comprehensively, and--more to the point--Jefferson's goal is Aristotelian:  a quest for Happiness, the pursuit of Eudemonia.