What Is Death To Us? Flashcards

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Death is either dreamless sleep or a change of location

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Socrates

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2
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Death is nothing to us

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Epicurus

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3
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Death is the outer horizon of our being

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Matting Heidegger

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4
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Death is bad because it deprives us of our potentialities

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Thomas Nagel

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5
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Death is Good because it gives meaning to life

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Bernard Williams

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6
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Ending a particular person’s life

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Death

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7
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Kind of being that always projects toward a future

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Dasein

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8
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Believed that when the human person dies, he no longer is and therefore feels nothing

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Epicurus

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9
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Represents Daseins’s past

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Thrownness

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Believed that death is either a dreamless sleep or a passage to another life

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Socrates

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11
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Believed that the only real evil is dying prematurely

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Nagel

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12
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Represents Dasein’s present

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Fallenness

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13
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Believed that death is the ultimate limit of a human person’s possiblities

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Heidegger

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14
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Represents Daisen’s future

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Existence

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15
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Believed that death is good because immortality will inevitably result in boredom

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Bernard Williams

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