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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... Fear involves the disposition to withdraw , courage the disposition to stand one's ground and fight the threat . Courage is often reasonable , often more reasonable than fear . But it too has its unreasonable extremes . One can be ...
... Fear involves the disposition to withdraw , courage the disposition to stand one's ground and fight the threat . Courage is often reasonable , often more reasonable than fear . But it too has its unreasonable extremes . One can be ...
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... fear of the unknown , fear of death , causes us to believe that there are certain causal forces at work which , if they really were operative , would show that the fear is unjustified ; and so , to eliminate the fear we accept those ...
... fear of the unknown , fear of death , causes us to believe that there are certain causal forces at work which , if they really were operative , would show that the fear is unjustified ; and so , to eliminate the fear we accept those ...
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... fear of death is the fear of dissolution of self ; the fear of loss of political unity is the fear of disorder and dissolution of social and personal identity . That is , in both cases the craving is for a solution to the problem of the ...
... fear of death is the fear of dissolution of self ; the fear of loss of political unity is the fear of disorder and dissolution of social and personal identity . That is , in both cases the craving is for a solution to the problem of the ...
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