Nagel

Question 1

Death is a Bad

Answer 1

• Nagel argues that death is a bad because it deprives the person of all the experiences that constitute being alive
• being alive is itself a good (independent of pleasures/pain that a person might undergo)
• death means that a person has less life than they otherwise would have had

Question 2

Death is…

Answer 2

the loss of life, rather than the state of being dead, non-existent or unconsciousness

Question 3

Deprivation Account: Symmetry Argument

Answer 3

Lucretius is mistaken about the symmetry

• there is an asymmetry between the time before we are born and the time after we die

Question 4

Born Earlier = Same Person?

Answer 4

• death deprives us of experiences
• but not being born earlier does not because the same person cannot have been born earlier but the same person can die later

Question 5

Deprivation Account

Answer 5

Nagel argues that death is a bad because it deprives the person of all the experiences that constitute being alive