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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... Concerning Human Nature30 and Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals , 31 was , on the negative side , to challenge the metaphysics , deriving from Socrates , that in the way just indicated ...
... Concerning Human Nature30 and Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals , 31 was , on the negative side , to challenge the metaphysics , deriving from Socrates , that in the way just indicated ...
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... concerning Natural Religion , has his representative Philo say , " both hope and fear enter into religion . " Indeed , this is the explanation why religion operates only in fits and starts : in everyday affairs a person is moved neither ...
... concerning Natural Religion , has his representative Philo say , " both hope and fear enter into religion . " Indeed , this is the explanation why religion operates only in fits and starts : in everyday affairs a person is moved neither ...
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... concerning Human Understanding and Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals , ed . L. A. Selby - Bigge , Second Edition ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1902 ) . Hume , D. History of England , 10 vols . ( London : R. Scholey ...
... concerning Human Understanding and Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals , ed . L. A. Selby - Bigge , Second Edition ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1902 ) . Hume , D. History of England , 10 vols . ( London : R. Scholey ...
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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