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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... ontology that they defended . This ontology is similar to the Platonic ontology that Socrates outlines in the Phaedo . In both there is an orientation to the Forms or Natures , the entities that are outside the world of experience and ...
... ontology that they defended . This ontology is similar to the Platonic ontology that Socrates outlines in the Phaedo . In both there is an orientation to the Forms or Natures , the entities that are outside the world of experience and ...
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... ontology of Socrates cannot be used to justify an attitude towards death . For Epicurus and Lucretius , the removal ... ontology , including the ontology of Socrates , that introduced entities that were beyond the world of sense ...
... ontology of Socrates cannot be used to justify an attitude towards death . For Epicurus and Lucretius , the removal ... ontology , including the ontology of Socrates , that introduced entities that were beyond the world of sense ...
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... ontology of value to justify a position it often turns out that the position that is being justified is one that favours the group with which one identifies oneself . In any case , with respect to each of the fears that creates the ...
... ontology of value to justify a position it often turns out that the position that is being justified is one that favours the group with which one identifies oneself . In any case , with respect to each of the fears that creates the ...
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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