Socrates, Lucretius, Camus: Two Philosophical Traditions on DeathThe present essay attempts to do something that has not been done in the recent literature concerning death, namely, to link reasons for attitudes towards death to reasons for different metaphysical postions on human being and the place of human being in the universe. Most recent discussions of death either place the topic directly in the context of nothing more than ethical considerations continued on the next page. |
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... Forms it achieves immortality in the sense of transcending the ephemeral world of sensible appearances , the world of ordinary space and time , passing beyond it to enter the timeless world of the Forms.28 But the soul , in coming into ...
... Forms it achieves immortality in the sense of transcending the ephemeral world of sensible appearances , the world of ordinary space and time , passing beyond it to enter the timeless world of the Forms.28 But the soul , in coming into ...
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... Forms to the Forms themselves ( 210a - 212a ) . There are , basically , four stages . First , there is physical beauty , then there is mental beauty ; then there is the beauty of " intellectual endeavours " ( 211c8 ) ; and then there is ...
... Forms to the Forms themselves ( 210a - 212a ) . There are , basically , four stages . First , there is physical beauty , then there is mental beauty ; then there is the beauty of " intellectual endeavours " ( 211c8 ) ; and then there is ...
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... Forms we grasp things that are unities , and therefore unchanging . Plotinus agrees that knowledge is tied down and ... Forms - they alone are stable , and sufficient to tether knowledge – and it is the soul that knows the Forms . These ...
... Forms we grasp things that are unities , and therefore unchanging . Plotinus agrees that knowledge is tied down and ... Forms - they alone are stable , and sufficient to tether knowledge – and it is the soul that knows the Forms . These ...
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Where Death Is I Am Not Lucretius | 29 |
Overcoming Death Socrates and His Successors | 77 |
The Epicurean Reply Hume | 167 |
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