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One such argument from Liber Tertivs (verse 904) consists of comparing death to being asleep. Another one is the symmetry argument, which compares the time after death with the time before birth of which we remember nothing, and so there is nothing to fear. Other arguments are less therapeut...
Because we have free will, the future is not set, and there is no fate for us but what we make for ourselves. Second, Nature shows us through all our faculties that consciousness began at birth and ends at death. Because our consciousness ceases to exist at death there is no pun...
You say:” He sentenced his own son to death!” I answer:“If he had no motive, I am sorry to be the descendant of anyone so savage and inhuman. But if his purpose for inflicting pain upon himself was to establish his authority as a commander, and to tighten the reins of discipline...
then nor should it trouble her while she is still alive (this is an early formulation of the ‘no subject of harm argument’). (2) The eternity that comes before a person’s birth is not regarded as an evil, and, therefore, neither should the eternity that comes after her death (an...
2. “It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”― Epicurus 3. “Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”― Epicur...
ON DEATH 31. It is possible to provide security against other things, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls. ON FRIENDSHIP 34. We do not so much need the assistance of our friends as we do the confidence of their assistance in need. ...
990-1022Cycles of death and renewal CAELESTI SVMVS OMNES SEMINE ORIVNDI (II:991) “We all have come from heavenly seed.” (Humphries) CEDIT ITEM RETRO, DE TERRA QUOD FVIT ANTE, IN TERRAS… (II:991) “What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth.” (Bailey) ...
the lever and be stimulated, and, dramatically, that the rats would furiously press the lever as many as thousands of times per hour to satisfy their fixation. They would choose the electrostimulation over food, over water, over sex, over parenting their offspring, to the point of death. ...
Simultaneously the tradition of Ionian science was reviving under the leadership of Aristotle, who was sympathetic with this direction of things by virtue of birth, early training, and cast of mind. The revived science, however, exhibited a shift of focus. The preceding Ionians had unwitti...