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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... least . Indeed , from the viewpoint of the Platonist , Hume is unavoidably a sceptic , denying knowledge and existence of any realm of being or source of value that transcends the empirical . For all that , however , Hume also argues ...
... least . Indeed , from the viewpoint of the Platonist , Hume is unavoidably a sceptic , denying knowledge and existence of any realm of being or source of value that transcends the empirical . For all that , however , Hume also argues ...
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... least of all things ; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life " is in apparent conflict with Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo that " ... those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they ...
... least of all things ; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life " is in apparent conflict with Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo that " ... those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they ...
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... least to attenuate it , if not to eliminate it , as a factor that moves one . ' At least , one can do so if one is so moved , that is , if one is motivated to shape one's cognitive standards to the Humean standard of the Enlightenment ...
... least to attenuate it , if not to eliminate it , as a factor that moves one . ' At least , one can do so if one is so moved , that is , if one is motivated to shape one's cognitive standards to the Humean standard of the Enlightenment ...
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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