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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... human ends and human means of achieving those ends , including our cognitive ends , Hume eliminates the non - human , or rather inhuman , standards of traditional epistemology . Hume abandons the chase after self - evident principles ...
... human ends and human means of achieving those ends , including our cognitive ends , Hume eliminates the non - human , or rather inhuman , standards of traditional epistemology . Hume abandons the chase after self - evident principles ...
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... human beings can achieve a unified sensibility , " while it is precisely this that it seems human beings cannot do , according to Camus . For the latter , there is always a disharmony in human being , an inevitable conflict between aim ...
... human beings can achieve a unified sensibility , " while it is precisely this that it seems human beings cannot do , according to Camus . For the latter , there is always a disharmony in human being , an inevitable conflict between aim ...
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... human nature is not an empirical fact but an essence deriving its reality and moral force from a transcendent form which human reason can grasp and which therefore places reason at the apex of the structure of human nature as superior ...
... human nature is not an empirical fact but an essence deriving its reality and moral force from a transcendent form which human reason can grasp and which therefore places reason at the apex of the structure of human nature as superior ...
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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