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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... desires in such a way that he or she no longer wants such value or meaning . Nagel suggests a way in which we can in fact discipline this desire . We can do so , he suggests , by convincing ourselves that it is simply not important that ...
... desires in such a way that he or she no longer wants such value or meaning . Nagel suggests a way in which we can in fact discipline this desire . We can do so , he suggests , by convincing ourselves that it is simply not important that ...
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... desire for a monistic understanding of the universe ; this craving for the metaphysically Absolute , for the unity of Plotinus , for the God of Augustine , is an innate and unavoidable part of human nature . " I can negate everything of ...
... desire for a monistic understanding of the universe ; this craving for the metaphysically Absolute , for the unity of Plotinus , for the God of Augustine , is an innate and unavoidable part of human nature . " I can negate everything of ...
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... desires absolute values , then one will inevitably desire some judgment to be passed on the absolute validity of this or that value judgment . Thus , as long as one has the desire for absolute values , one cannot just get on with the ...
... desires absolute values , then one will inevitably desire some judgment to be passed on the absolute validity of this or that value judgment . Thus , as long as one has the desire for absolute values , one cannot just get on with the ...
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absolute values absurd accept achieve actions activity Albert Camus argument Aristotle attitude towards death Baier belief body Camus causal causes cognitive concerning contrary course craving Dasein David Hume defended desire Emma entities Epicurean Epicurus Epicurus and Lucretius essay eternal Ethics existence fact fact of death fear of death feel Forms grasp Heidegger hope human nature Hume's Humean idea immortality inevitable innate justified Klemke knowledge Kurt Baier Lucretius Maecenas matter meaning metaphysical Meursault mind monist moral Myth of Sisyphus Nagel narrator neo-Platonic novel objective value one's oneself ontology ordinary ourselves pain passions patterns person Phaedo philosophical Plato pleasure Plotinus Plutarch possible rational reason recognize regret religion Samuel Johnson sceptic Seneca sense experience Simmias simply social society Socrates sort soul Spinoza standard Stoics striving suicide super-ego task of living things thought trans transcendent truth understand unified unity University Press virtue virtuous world of sense