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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... passions.22 As Spinoza indicates , " ... it must be especially remarked , that the appetite through which a man is said to be active , and that through which he is said to be passive is one and the same " ( V , 4 , Note ) . If we tried ...
... passions.22 As Spinoza indicates , " ... it must be especially remarked , that the appetite through which a man is said to be active , and that through which he is said to be passive is one and the same " ( V , 4 , Note ) . If we tried ...
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... passions , that is , the states that move us to action . ... ' tis evident our passions , volitions , and actions , are not susceptible of any such agreement or disagreement ; being original facts and realities , compleat in themselves ...
... passions , that is , the states that move us to action . ... ' tis evident our passions , volitions , and actions , are not susceptible of any such agreement or disagreement ; being original facts and realities , compleat in themselves ...
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... passion that comes naturally to us , would we not discipline ourselves to avoid them ? Hume proceeds in the Treatise to point out that other passions , equally natural , also affect our beliefs . Such passions are further factors that ...
... passion that comes naturally to us , would we not discipline ourselves to avoid them ? Hume proceeds in the Treatise to point out that other passions , equally natural , also affect our beliefs . Such passions are further factors 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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