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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... the surface of the earth . To say that the patterns are analogous is to say that the patterns themselves share a pattern , that there is a pattern among patterns , a regularity about regularities . Just as one can use patterns to 32.
... the surface of the earth . To say that the patterns are analogous is to say that the patterns themselves share a pattern , that there is a pattern among patterns , a regularity about regularities . Just as one can use patterns to 32.
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... patterns to infer causes from effects and effects from causes , so one can use a familiar pattern among known patterns to plausibly infer that the pattern of behaviour of entities in our world that are inaccessible to us is a pattern of ...
... patterns to infer causes from effects and effects from causes , so one can use a familiar pattern among known patterns to plausibly infer that the pattern of behaviour of entities in our world that are inaccessible to us is a pattern of ...
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... patterns of behaviour ; their customs and habits , be they social or cognitive , are such patterns . Almost all of these patterns are , it is clear , acquired or learned . And , if Hume is correct , they are learned in conformity with ...
... patterns of behaviour ; their customs and habits , be they social or cognitive , are such patterns . Almost all of these patterns are , it is clear , acquired or learned . And , if Hume is correct , they are learned in conformity with ...
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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