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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... pleasure [ is ] the beginning and the end of the blessed life . " We recognize pleasure as the first and natural good ; starting from pleasure we accept or reject ; and we return to this as we judge every good thing , trusting this ...
... pleasure [ is ] the beginning and the end of the blessed life . " We recognize pleasure as the first and natural good ; starting from pleasure we accept or reject ; and we return to this as we judge every good thing , trusting this ...
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... pleasure ; pleasure he holds to be the Chief Good , pain the Chief Evil . This he sets out to prove as follows : Every animal , as soon as it is born , seeks for pleasure , and delights in it as the Chief Good , while it recoils from ...
... pleasure ; pleasure he holds to be the Chief Good , pain the Chief Evil . This he sets out to prove as follows : Every animal , as soon as it is born , seeks for pleasure , and delights in it as the Chief Good , while it recoils from ...
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... pleasure , but only the means by which that is achieved . The knowledge of means towards pleasure will , of course , sometimes lead us to avoid certain pleasures . 56 For the very reason that pleasure is the chief and the natural good ...
... pleasure , but only the means by which that is achieved . The knowledge of means towards pleasure will , of course , sometimes lead us to avoid certain pleasures . 56 For the very reason that pleasure is the chief and the natural good ...
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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