What Is Death To Us? Flashcards
Death is either dreamless sleep or a change of location
Socrates
Death is nothing to us
Epicurus
Death is the outer horizon of our being
Matting Heidegger
Death is bad because it deprives us of our potentialities
Thomas Nagel
Death is Good because it gives meaning to life
Bernard Williams
Ending a particular person’s life
Death
Kind of being that always projects toward a future
Dasein
Believed that when the human person dies, he no longer is and therefore feels nothing
Epicurus
Represents Daseins’s past
Thrownness
Believed that death is either a dreamless sleep or a passage to another life
Socrates
Believed that the only real evil is dying prematurely
Nagel
Represents Dasein’s present
Fallenness
Believed that death is the ultimate limit of a human person’s possiblities
Heidegger
Represents Daisen’s future
Existence
Believed that death is good because immortality will inevitably result in boredom
Bernard Williams