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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... sure , death is a fact , and we must take account of it in our projects . It should be accepted as a fact , which it is , but as a fact which is relevant to our plans and behaviour as we attempt to live a reasonable and decent life . As ...
... sure , death is a fact , and we must take account of it in our projects . It should be accepted as a fact , which it is , but as a fact which is relevant to our plans and behaviour as we attempt to live a reasonable and decent life . As ...
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... sure foundation outside his own experience for his concerns . It is from this that he therefore concludes that from ... sure foundations for value , and argues that all the values there are the relative values we each feel but which have ...
... sure foundation outside his own experience for his concerns . It is from this that he therefore concludes that from ... sure foundations for value , and argues that all the values there are the relative values we each feel but which have ...
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... sure of myself , sure about everything , far surer than he ; sure of my present life and of the death that was 334.
... sure of myself , sure about everything , far surer than he ; sure of my present life and of the death that was 334.
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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