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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... eternal . The virtuous , the “ pure of heart , " shall " see God , " and thereby become themselves participants in the eternal : theirs is everlasting life . For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through ...
... eternal . The virtuous , the “ pure of heart , " shall " see God , " and thereby become themselves participants in the eternal : theirs is everlasting life . For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through ...
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... eternal idea of the person in the mind of God , for , as Spinoza puts it , " in eternity there is no when , before or after " ( I , 33 , Note II ) . But in that eternal idea are the eternal ideas of these processes . These latter ideas ...
... eternal idea of the person in the mind of God , for , as Spinoza puts it , " in eternity there is no when , before or after " ( I , 33 , Note II ) . But in that eternal idea are the eternal ideas of these processes . These latter ideas ...
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... eternal understanding eternity to mean timelessness rather than , as in " men's general opinion , " " duration " ( V , 34 , Note ) . Each person's mind depends upon his or her body ; indeed , they are , as we have seen , in a way ...
... eternal understanding eternity to mean timelessness rather than , as in " men's general opinion , " " duration " ( V , 34 , Note ) . Each person's mind depends upon his or her body ; indeed , they are , as we have seen , in a way ...
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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