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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... Principle " of the universe . No individual Form or Nature is isolated ; it is part of this single Intellectual Principle , Mind or Intelligence . The Intellectual - Principle entire is the total of the Ideas , and each of them is the ...
... Principle " of the universe . No individual Form or Nature is isolated ; it is part of this single Intellectual Principle , Mind or Intelligence . The Intellectual - Principle entire is the total of the Ideas , and each of them is the ...
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... Principle [ the Intellectual - Principle ] contains Identity with Difference its division is ceaselessly bringing the different things to light " ( VI , 7 , 13 , p . 572 ) . On the other hand , we are also told , " the content of that ...
... Principle [ the Intellectual - Principle ] contains Identity with Difference its division is ceaselessly bringing the different things to light " ( VI , 7 , 13 , p . 572 ) . On the other hand , we are also told , " the content of that ...
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... Principle ; this in turn is explained by the ultimate unity which , through its causal power , creates the lower levels , beginning with the Intellectual Principle , in all their increasing diversity . From the First entity " follows ...
... Principle ; this in turn is explained by the ultimate unity which , through its causal power , creates the lower levels , beginning with the Intellectual Principle , in all their increasing diversity . From the First entity " follows ...
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Where Death Is I Am Not Lucretius | 29 |
Overcoming Death Socrates and His Successors | 77 |
The Epicurean Reply Hume | 167 |
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