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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 56
Page 47
... existence defines for us an " open - ended possible future ... " But there is another point to be made . If Sophocles and Cephalus no longer have the bodily impulses that moved them in their youth , Cephalus regretting the fact ...
... existence defines for us an " open - ended possible future ... " But there is another point to be made . If Sophocles and Cephalus no longer have the bodily impulses that moved them in their youth , Cephalus regretting the fact ...
Page 90
... existence of a realm consisting of Forms or Ideas , and , second , to the existence of our knowledge of these Forms . The Forms are entities which account for the similarities of particular things in the world : two things are similar ...
... existence of a realm consisting of Forms or Ideas , and , second , to the existence of our knowledge of these Forms . The Forms are entities which account for the similarities of particular things in the world : two things are similar ...
Page 182
... existence is a negation of power , and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power ... " ( I , 11 , Prf # 3 ) . The idea of God is the idea of a being with sufficient power to produce all things - including himself . It ...
... existence is a negation of power , and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power ... " ( I , 11 , Prf # 3 ) . The idea of God is the idea of a being with sufficient power to produce all things - including himself . It ...
Contents
Where Death Is I Am Not Lucretius | 29 |
Overcoming Death Socrates and His Successors | 77 |
The Epicurean Reply Hume | 167 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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