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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... connections of physics ; but there are ( as Descartes understood ) no necessary connections by which one can infer a mental property from a physical property or conversely . The unity of mind and body is constituted by something deeper ...
... connections of physics ; but there are ( as Descartes understood ) no necessary connections by which one can infer a mental property from a physical property or conversely . The unity of mind and body is constituted by something deeper ...
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... connection . On this basis they convince themselves that absolute certainty is attainable : once we grasp the objective necessary connections , we will have knowledge of causal connections that is infallible , excluding all possibility ...
... connection . On this basis they convince themselves that absolute certainty is attainable : once we grasp the objective necessary connections , we will have knowledge of causal connections that is infallible , excluding all possibility ...
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... connections and without value . This is not a correct view of Hume❝ . Hume's world does have causal connections and values ; it is just that they are relative , rather than absolute . That is , Sartre describes Hume's world not as an ...
... connections and without value . This is not a correct view of Hume❝ . Hume's world does have causal connections and values ; it is just that they are relative , rather than absolute . That is , Sartre describes Hume's world not as an ...
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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