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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... activity and an instance of care , alongside other activities such as willing : perceiving is the activity the end of which is the uncovering of the entity perceived , and freeing it from what veils it from us . Even self - knowledge is ...
... activity and an instance of care , alongside other activities such as willing : perceiving is the activity the end of which is the uncovering of the entity perceived , and freeing it from what veils it from us . Even self - knowledge is ...
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... activity aims at the best . Now , if an activity is a consequence of a deeper activity then the former is a means to the end at which the latter aims . Hence , if there were a non - terminating regress of activities , each activity ...
... activity aims at the best . Now , if an activity is a consequence of a deeper activity then the former is a means to the end at which the latter aims . Hence , if there were a non - terminating regress of activities , each activity ...
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... activity , as Aristotle insisted that such activity must be , is Natured , that is , has a certain inbuilt direction that provides a teleological order to the events that it creates : " God himself , the individual being whose quality ...
... activity , as Aristotle insisted that such activity must be , is Natured , that is , has a certain inbuilt direction that provides a teleological order to the events that it creates : " God himself , the individual being whose quality ...
Contents
Where Death Is I Am Not Lucretius | 29 |
Overcoming Death Socrates and His Successors | 77 |
The Epicurean Reply Hume | 167 |
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