Abstract: Death may seem to be a rather morbid subject for philosophical speculation. Why, after all, should the living concern themselves with a state that, by definition, they do not occupy? Death – the sickle–wielding reaper, the biblical king of terrors – has not yet arrived for any reader of these lines. In one of the most famous reflections on death, the Greek philosopher Epicurus reminds us that “so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist”. Epicurus concludes from this that death is of no concern to either the living or the dead, “since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more” (Epicurus 1926: 85).
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-12-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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