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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... simply the sense - the satisfying sense that one has done right , that oneself , the motivations that one acts on , are in conformity with what the transcendent standard requires . But the source of moral rightness is what is called God ...
... simply the sense - the satisfying sense that one has done right , that oneself , the motivations that one acts on , are in conformity with what the transcendent standard requires . But the source of moral rightness is what is called God ...
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... simply belonging to a certain body . As Hume insists , the self , through its sentiments and actions , is bound up with social interactions ; this is why he speaks of the " self or that individual person whose actions and sentiments ...
... simply belonging to a certain body . As Hume insists , the self , through its sentiments and actions , is bound up with social interactions ; this is why he speaks of the " self or that individual person whose actions and sentiments ...
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... simply takes for granted that this position is mistaken . Hume understands the ' nature ' of ' natural law ' to mean nothing more than the empirical universe , and the ' law ' of ' natural law ' to refer to matter - of - fact ...
... simply takes for granted that this position is mistaken . Hume understands the ' nature ' of ' natural law ' to mean nothing more than the empirical universe , and the ' law ' of ' natural law ' to refer to matter - of - fact ...
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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