Socrates, Lucretius, Camus: Two Philosophical Traditions on Death

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Edwin Mellen Press, 2001 - 519 páginas
The 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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Where Death Is I Am Not Lucretius
29
Overcoming Death Socrates and His Successors
77
The Epicurean Reply Hume
167
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Fred Wilson is currently a Professor at the University of Toronto.

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