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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... metaphysics that attempts to establish propositions about entities lying outside the world of sense experience , the idea of objective value as grounded in metaphysical unity is simply non - sense . This establishes in a deep and ...
... metaphysics that attempts to establish propositions about entities lying outside the world of sense experience , the idea of objective value as grounded in metaphysical unity is simply non - sense . This establishes in a deep and ...
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... metaphysics that declares such rebellion sin and proclaims the oppressive social order sanctified . Thus , " human rebellion ends in metaphysical rebellion " ( p . 25 ) . Conversely , those who argue systematically against the metaphysics ...
... metaphysics that declares such rebellion sin and proclaims the oppressive social order sanctified . Thus , " human rebellion ends in metaphysical rebellion " ( p . 25 ) . Conversely , those who argue systematically against the metaphysics ...
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... metaphysical unity is a way of disguising from himself a craving for a political and social unity that he found he neither could attain , nor , from the perspective of his humane sensibility and politics , wanted to attain . This ...
... metaphysical unity is a way of disguising from himself a craving for a political and social unity that he found he neither could attain , nor , from the perspective of his humane sensibility and politics , wanted to attain . This ...
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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