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Lucretius on Death and Anxiety

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861292
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius on Death and Anxiety written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Lucretius and the Fears of Death

Author : Peter Aronoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius and the Fears of Death written by Peter Aronoff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Facing Death

Author : James Warren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199252890
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Facing Death written by James Warren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Warren examines and evaluates the argument that death is 'nothing to us'. He sets this against modern philosophical accounts of how death can be a harm and asks whether a life free from all fear of death is an attractive option and what the consequences would be of a full acceptance of the Epicureans' views.

Philodemus, on Death

Author : Philodemus
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philodemus, on Death written by Philodemus and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Death," by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara, is among the most significant philosophical treatments of the theme surviving from the Greco-Roman world. The author was an influential figure in first-century B.C.E. Roman society, associated with poets such as Virgil and politicians such as the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. The surviving copies of his treatises were carbonized following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E. This edition contains the Greek text, newly reconstituted with the help of the infrared imaging technology that has revolutionized the study of Philodemus s works in the twenty-first century, and completely translated into English for the first time. An extensive introduction provides background on Philodemus and his writings, accompanying notes enrich the text, and forty-four pages of photographs illustrate the papyrus manuscript from which the translation is drawn.

Epicurus and the Singularity of Death

Author : David B. Suits
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350134058
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Epicurus and the Singularity of Death written by David B. Suits and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Letter to Menoeceus, the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus states that 'death is nothing to us'. Few philosophers then or since have agreed with his controversial argument, upholding instead that death constitutes a deprivation and is therefore to be feared. Diverging from the current trend and sparking fresh debate, this book provides an imaginative defense of the Epicurean view of death. Drawing on Epicurus's Principal Doctrines, Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and Philodemus's De Morte, David Suits argues that the usual concepts of harm, loss and suffering no longer apply in death, thus showing how the deprivation view is flawed. He also applies Epicurean reasoning to key issues in applied ethics in order to dispute the claim that there can be a right to life, to defend egoistic friendship, and to consider how Epicureanism might handle wills and life insurance. By championing the Epicurean perspective, this book makes a valuable contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate about death.

De Rerum Natura III

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0856686948
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book De Rerum Natura III written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.

Lucretius on Life and Death

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book Lucretius on Life and Death written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism

Author : Phillip Mitsis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197522009
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism written by Phillip Mitsis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important subsequent influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Such a detailed and comprehensive study of Epicureanism is especially timely given the tremendous current revival of interest in Epicurus and his rivals, the Stoics. The thirty-one contributions in this volume offer an unmatched resource for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicurus' powerful arguments about happiness, death, and the nature of the material world and our place in it. At the same time, his arguments are carefully placed in the context of ancient and subsequent disputes, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring Epicurean arguments against a wide range of opponents--from Platonists, Aristotelians and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such important contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams. The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two fascinating and ongoing sources of Epicurean arguments, the Herculaneum papyri and the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Our understanding of Epicureanism is continually being enriched by these new sources of evidence and the contributors to this volume have been able to make use of them in presenting the most current understanding of Epicurus's own views. By the same token, the second half of the volume is devoted to the extraordinary influence of Epicurean doctrines, often either neglected or misunderstood, in literature, political thinking, scientific innovation, personal conceptions of freedom and happiness, and in philosophy generally. Taken together, the contributions in this volume offer the most comprehensive and detailed account of Epicurus and Epicureanism available in English.

Of the Nature of Things

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immortality and the Philosophy of Death

Author : Michael Cholbi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483857
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Immortality and the Philosophy of Death written by Michael Cholbi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.

Natality and Finitude

Author : Anne O'Byrne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004772
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Natality and Finitude written by Anne O'Byrne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought.

Philosophy and Death

Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119021
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Death written by Robert J. Stainton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains a most profound and puzzling topic. Samantha Brennan and Robert Stainton have assembled a compelling selection of core readings from the philosophical literature on death. The views of ancient writers such as Plato, Epicurus, and Lucretius are set alongside the work of contemporary figures such as Thomas Nagel, John Perry, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Brennan and Stainton divide the anthology into three parts. Part I considers questions about the nature of death and our knowledge of it. What does it mean to be dead? Is it possible to survive death? Is the end of life a mystery? Part II asks how we should view death. What (if anything) is so bad about dying? If death is nothingness, should it be feared or regretted? Part III examines ethical questions related to killing, particularly abortion, euthanasia and suicide. Is killing ever permissible? Under what conditions or circumstances?

The Metaphysics of Death

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721042
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Death written by John Martin Fischer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. This issue is more basic and abstract than such moral questions as the particular conditions under which euthanasia is justified, if it is ever justified. Though there are important connections between the more abstract questions addressed in this book and many contemporary moral issues, such as euthanasia, suicide, and abortion, the primary focus of this book is on metaphysical issues concerning the nature of death: What is the nature of the harm or bad involved in death? (If it is not pain, wha is it, and how can it be bad?) Who is the subject of the harm or bad? (if the person is no longer alive, how can he be the subject of the bad? An if he is not the subject, who is? Can one have harm with no subject?) When does the harm take place? (Can a harm take place after its subject ceases to exist? If death harms a person, can the harm take place before the death occurs?) If death can be a bad thing, would immorality be a desirable alternative? This family of questions helps to fram ethe puzzle of why--and how--death is bad. Other subjects addressed include the Epicurean view othat death is not a misfortune (for the person who dies); the nature of misfortune and benefit; the meaningulness and value of life; and the distinction between the life of a person and the life of a living creature who is not a person. There is an extensive bibiography that includes science-fiction treatments of death and immorality.

The Poems of John Dryden

Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

Author : Ben Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190271450
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death written by Ben Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.

The Case against Death

Author : Ingemar Patrick Linden
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543168
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Case against Death written by Ingemar Patrick Linden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension. Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We may be on the cusp of a new human condition where scientists seek to break through the arbitrarily set age limit of human existence to address aging as an illness that can be cured. The book, however, is not about the science and technology of life extension but whether we should want more life. For Linden, the answer is a loud and clear “yes.” The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture. Linden examines the views of major philosophical voices of the past, whom he calls “death’s ardent advocates.” These include the Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Lucretius, and Montaigne. All have taught what he calls “the Wise View,” namely, that we should not fear death. After setting out his case against death, Linden systematically examines each of the accepted arguments for death—that aging and death are natural, that death is harmless, that life is overrated, that living longer would be boring, and that death saves us from overpopulation. He concludes with a “dialogue concerning the badness of human mortality.” Though Linden acknowledges that The Case Against Death is a negative polemic, he also defends it as optimistic, in that the badness of death is a function of the goodness of life.

Epicurus

Author : Dane R. Gordon
Publisher : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971345966
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Epicurus written by Dane R. Gordon and published by RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Epicurus (c. 341-271 B. C. E.), has been a quietly pervasive influence for more than two millennia. At present, when many long revered ideologies are proven empty, Epicureanism is powerfully and refreshingly relevant, offering a straightforward way of dealing with the issues of life and death. The chapters in this book provide a kaleidoscope of contemporary opinions about Epicurus' teachings. They tell us also about the archeological discoveries that promise to augment the scant remains we have of Epicurus's own writing. the breadth of this new work will be welcomed by those who value Epicurean philosophy as a scholarly and personal resource for contemporary life. "Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance," is the title of a 2002 conference on Epicurus held at Rochester Institute of Technology, when many of the ideas here were first presented.