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Difference between fear and anxiety

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Fear is fear of an object, fear can be overcome with courage. Anxiety cannot be met with courage, anxiety is what causes the sting of fear

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What is the ontological question

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What is it like to be dead

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Landsberg

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community - that two people who form communion may experience the death of the other

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Edward’s view

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Believes the ontological quest is logically impossible to solve
Death is not a state

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Existentialism

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Focuses on the unique being and freedom of each individual

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Ontology

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The study of what sorts of things exist and what they are
Study of being

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Ewin’s view

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Four concepts of death; loss of soul, vital functions, bodily integration, capacity for what is human

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Perry’s view

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Two conditions for meaningful survival: Survival and identity condition; the thing that survives must be you, and something must have survived after biological death

Three things that makes a person a person; same body, same sole, same mental state(ambiguous)

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Problems with perry’s view

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Seeing to remember vs actually remembering

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Martin’s Views

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believes in reincarnation

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Traditional christian view

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On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised both righteous and unrighteous alike god
Judgement day
Survival of a person depends on God’s resurrecting the person in both body and soul

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Tension in the Christians View

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Each person will be in God’s presence immediately after death?
There is one day upon which all people will be resurrected and judged?
People Die at different times

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Disembodiment Theory

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The soul continues to exist until resurrection without the body
The body will be raised from the ground to be reunited with the soul
The body will be transformed into a glorified body

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Davis view

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Disembodiment theory
The same body a person had while alive comes to be again
Soul is sufficient for survival because survival of soul entails survival of psychology

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Three problems for reconstitution of earthly bodies

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Which parts?
Cannabalism, what if parts are eaten
Death by duplication

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Two Epicurean Beliefs

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Termination thesis
- A person ceases to exist at the moment of death

Hedonism
- The only thing that is good is pleasure; the only thing that is bad is pain

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Epicurus believes

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Sensation ceases at death, so death is nothing to us
It is pointless to agonize over something that brings no trouble when it arrives

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Epicurus Arguement

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Each person ceases to exist at the moment of death
If 1, then no one has any pain after death
The only thing that is bad is pain
If 2 and 3 then death is not bad for the person who dies
Therefore death is nothing to us

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Lucretius beliefs

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Banquet agreement
Population argument
Reconstitution argument
Symmetry argument
The time before you were born and the time after you die are symmetrical in the sense they are both times you did not exist

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Banquet Argument

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Life is a banquet, your born on time and there is a time to leave

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Population Argument

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Please die so that there is room for the next generation

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Reconstitution agreement

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If death means nothing and is nothing you should not be worried about being reconstituted

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Symmetry argument

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The time at which you existed and the time after you existed, you should not care about it because no one cares you did not exist

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Depreivation account of the badness of death

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Is death bad for the person who dies on the account that the person is deprived of life

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Negal beliefs

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Death is bad for the person who dies when it deprives that person of future possible goods

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Problems with Negals view

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Showing that the dead person can actually be harmed
Assigning the harm of death
Symmetry problem

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Desire satisfaction theory

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The satisfaction of desires is good; not having desires satisfied is bad

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Objective value theory

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Some things are good or bad whatever we think and know about them

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Two cases of ; can what you don’t know hurt you:

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Unknown betrayal
Adult as a contented infant

30
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Rosenbaum beliefs

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Defends epicurus
What we dont know cant hurt us but only if we are able to experience it

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The experience condition

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Something can only be good or bad for a person if it is experienced

32
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The existence condition

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Something can only be good or bad for a person if that person exists

33
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The “no subject” problem

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No one you are talking about because they do not exist once they are dead

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The asymmetry problem

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Suggests that as we are wandering through life, nature holds up a mirror and looking back there is a period at which we did not exist, so therefore we should not be worried about the time after we exist

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Three problems to the asymmetry argument

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Backfire objection
- Accept that prenatal nonexistence must have been bad for us
Point to an asymmtery
- Between prenatal nonexistence and posthumous nonexistence
Deny Lucretius notion
- That we should have symmetrical attitudes toward symmetrical periods of non-existence

36
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Frances Kamm

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Insult Factor
- Death insults us by taking everything we have

37
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Williams Views

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Defends desire-satisfaction theory
Claims that death and immortality could be bad for the same reason - desires do not get satisfied

38
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Contingent desires

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Desires that you wish to have fulfilled if you are around to do so

If I wake up tomorrow I would like to have lunch

39
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Categorical Desires

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Those desires for the sake of which you continue living

Give your life meaning

40
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Myth of Sisyphus

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Life is absurd
Rolling the boulder up to the top of the hill only to find that the boulder comes back down indefinetly forever

41
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Who believes in absurdity of life

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Thomas Nagel and Albert Camus

42
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Who believes death gives life meaning

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Heidegger
Martha Nassbaum
Bernard Williams

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Camus Views

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Absurd is born of the confrontation between that humans need to be assured that our individual lives habve meaning and the unreasonable silence of the world

To escape the absurd we could have faith

Or suicide

44
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Confucianism

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Ritual propriety promoting harmony and order in society
Mourning period and rituals following death

Tension
Realizing that death is natural and rituals suggest that dead person is still alive

45
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Daoism

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Moving away from the ways we have been socialized and traditional ritual

46
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Epicurean view of fear of death

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Fear of death can ruin your life
Fear of death rests on our belief that death is or will be bad

47
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Rorty views

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Fearing death is irrational insofar as being dead is not bad for th eperson who dies
But fearing deathc ould be appropriate because it can prevent it

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Murphy Views

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The fear of death could be instrumental in bringing about some behavior or action that would allow a person to avoids death

49
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Who believes fear of death is irrational, death is not bad

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Epicureans

50
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Who believes that fear of death is rational, death is not bad

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Rorty

51
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Who believes death is bad, fear of death is irrational

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Feldman

52
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Who believes fear of death is rational and death is bad

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Overall’s

53
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Feldman

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We should avoid fearing death, as it can make our lives worse than if they would be if we dont fear death

54
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Aquinas Belief

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Suicide is morally wrong
Murder is a sin so suicide is too

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Hume Views

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Argues suicide is not always wrong

A person who ends their own life does no harm to society, at best the person no longer does good

Age nad sickness may make life a burden worse than annihilation

Nonman ever threw away a life worth living

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Brandt Views

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Suicide is not always wrong

Sometimes people can be a burden to society, so suicide is not wrong

Sometimes the inclination to die is stronger than the inclination to stay alive, so we might actually be doing ourselves a favor by dying

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Objection 3 to aquinas view

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We can suffer a lesser danger to avoid a greater danger

However the passage from life to death is up to god, there is no chance for repentance

58
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Voluntary assisted suicide

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when the person whose life is ending is asking for it to be ended

59
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Involuntary assisted suicide

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I do not want to die, someone else ends their life because it is not worth living

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Nonvoluntary assisted suicide

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does not actively ask, but may have no objection

61
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What is autonomy

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The ability to act on your own values and principles

62
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Intuitive possibility of the epicureans

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Fear of death is irrational, death is not bad

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Infinitive possibility of Amelie forty

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Fear of death is rational,death is not bad

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Intuitive possibility Fred Feldman of

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Death is bad, fear of death is irrational

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Intuitive possibility of Christine overalls

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Fear of death is rational, death is bad

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