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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... ideas of the properties of things " ( ib . ) . These ideas are , in the first instance , ideas in God's mind : " In God there is necessarily not only the idea of his essence , but of all the things which necessarily follow from his ...
... ideas of the properties of things " ( ib . ) . These ideas are , in the first instance , ideas in God's mind : " In God there is necessarily not only the idea of his essence , but of all the things which necessarily follow from his ...
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... idea of every body , or of every particular thing actually existing , necessarily involves the eternal and infinite essence of God " ( II , 45 ) . Every idea implies , in the end , the infinite essence of God ; and this idea of God ...
... idea of every body , or of every particular thing actually existing , necessarily involves the eternal and infinite essence of God " ( II , 45 ) . Every idea implies , in the end , the infinite essence of God ; and this idea of God ...
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... ideas that men have establish that they do not have a priori ideas of perfection . For , ( a ) our idea of morality is such that no moral principle is taken to be established a priori ; to the contrary , " there cannot be any one moral ...
... ideas that men have establish that they do not have a priori ideas of perfection . For , ( a ) our idea of morality is such that no moral principle is taken to be established a priori ; to the contrary , " there cannot be any one moral ...
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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