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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... Death lacked any significance against the virtue that to him gave meaning to his life . Even his last moments exemplified this virtue that gave his life meaning : unlike Maecenas , he resolutely faced the fact of death , accepted it ...
... Death lacked any significance against the virtue that to him gave meaning to his life . Even his last moments exemplified this virtue that gave his life meaning : unlike Maecenas , he resolutely faced the fact of death , accepted it ...
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... death as the limit of all possible projects means in effect that death itself is the outer limit of the structured self that one can actualize through one's activities . That is , If Dasein stands before itself as this possibility [ death ] ...
... death as the limit of all possible projects means in effect that death itself is the outer limit of the structured self that one can actualize through one's activities . That is , If Dasein stands before itself as this possibility [ death ] ...
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Two Philosophical Traditions on Death Fred Wilson. Death is Dasein's ownmost possibility . Being towards this possibility discloses to Dasein its ownmost potentiality - for - Being , in which its very Being is the issue ( p . 307 ) . In ...
Two Philosophical Traditions on Death Fred Wilson. Death is Dasein's ownmost possibility . Being towards this possibility discloses to Dasein its ownmost potentiality - for - Being , in which its very Being is the issue ( p . 307 ) . In ...
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