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Aug 17, 2023 · When approaching the subject of death, Kierkegaard is very clear about his perspective, which is that one’s view of death is intrinsically linked to one’s view of life and existence as a whole. Death is an uncertain certainty, something that we all know will eventually happen to us but that can strike us at any moment of our lives.
May 22, 2002 · Epicurus seemed to be thinking along these lines when he wrote that “death is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not, and when death is present, then we are not.” (Echoing Epicurus, Nagel 1970 wrote “So long as a person exists, he has not yet died, and once he has died, he no longer exists; so there seems to be no time when death, if it is a misfortune, can be ascribed to its ...
The ambiguity: an enigma” (ibid: 14). Although, as Heidegger (1967:298–311) argues, death is the only absolute certainty we have and it is the origin of certitude itself, I agree with Levinas (ibid: 10–27) that this certitude cannot be forthcoming from the experience of our own death alone, which is impossible anyway. Death entails the ...
Nov 1, 2021 · SIEGEL: This question arises because we can be made to feel uneasy, distracted, or derailed by death in any form: mass death, or the prospect of our own; deaths of people unknown to us that we only hear or read about; or deaths of people who tear the fabric of our lives when they go. Both in politics and in everyday life, one of the worst things we could do is get used to death, treat it as ...
The Badness of Death, Part III; Immortality, Part I: Lecture 19 : Immortality Part II; The Value of Life, Part I: Lecture 20 : The Value of Life, Part II; Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I: Lecture 21 : Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II: Lecture 22 : Fear of Death: Lecture 23 : How to Live Given the Certainty of Death
French – 16th-/17th-century ivory pendant, Monk and Death, recalling mortality and the certainty of death (Walters Art Museum) While "brain death" is viewed as problematic by some scholars, there are proponents of it [who?] that believe this definition of death is the most reasonable for distinguishing life from death. The reasoning behind ...
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Mar 15, 2015 · Death is the only certainty in life and nothing else defines us like this very fact — we are sentient beings living in time, on a journey towards death. That’s why we have to deal with it. Unlike the animals that „hear about death for the first time when they die“, we stepped out of the continuum and now we have to find our position again.
