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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... immortality when it grasps the Form in virtuous action.29 But wisdom is something that can be achieved in this life , in the present . That means that in the relevant sense of immortality , the soul achieves the immortality that removes ...
... immortality when it grasps the Form in virtuous action.29 But wisdom is something that can be achieved in this life , in the present . That means that in the relevant sense of immortality , the soul achieves the immortality that removes ...
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... immortality is irrelevant or one seeks immortality and it is not virtue that gives meaning to life . But here one should recall the discussion of Chapter One . In respect of ( V1 ) , the basic point about the tradition of Socrates and ...
... immortality is irrelevant or one seeks immortality and it is not virtue that gives meaning to life . But here one should recall the discussion of Chapter One . In respect of ( V1 ) , the basic point about the tradition of Socrates and ...
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... immortality . But the orientation towards virtue that achieves this immortality is precisely what justifies the attitude towards death common to Socrates and Spinoza . It is the immortality achieved through the practice of virtue that ...
... immortality . But the orientation towards virtue that achieves this immortality is precisely what justifies the attitude towards death common to Socrates and Spinoza . It is the immortality achieved through the practice of virtue that ...
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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