So it is silly for a person to say that he dreads death—not because it will be painful when it arrives but because it pains him now as a future certainty; for that which makes no trouble for us when it arrives is a meaningless pain when we await it. This, the most horrifying of evils, means nothing to us, then, because so long as we are existent death is not present and whenever it is present we are nonexistent. Thus it is of no concern either to the living or to those who have completed their lives. For the former it is nonexistent, and the latter are themselves nonexistent" (LD, p. 49-50) These remarks encapsulate Epicurus’s views on our attitudes towards death. What argument does he provide for why we should not fear death?
I am prepared to speak, /But should we not go in?” Example 2: Scene II, lines 85-86. “I hate anarchy /And never would deal with any man who likes it.” Trait- loyal example 1: Scene II, lines 5-8, “If in these present difficulties /He holds me accountable for any harm to him /Through anything I have said or done-why, then, /I do not value life in this dishonor.” Example 2: Scene II, lines 52-53. “I do not know; and I am the kind of man/ Who holds his tongue when he has no facts to go on.” Teiresias: trait- acrimonious example 1: Scene I, lines 154 & 155. “You are the madman, There is no one here/ Who will not curse you soon, as you curse me.” Example 2: Scene I, lines 108 & 109. “When it comes to speech, your own is neither temperate/ Nor opportune.
I want them to leave. No one will replace Odysseus. E: If only Odysseus was here.. P: He’s not here, we must accept the truth that he is dead, and he will never comeback. (In
I will first present Epicurus’ argument and Feldman’s counter argument and explain the latter. 1. The Epicurean Argument and Feldman’s Counterargument The Epicurean argument is as follows: A1: You stop existing when you die A2: If so, you don’t feel pain while you are dead A3: If so, then being dead is not bad for you A4: If something is not bad for you, you shouldn’t fear it A5: It is irrational for you to fear death I want to clarify a few things in these arguments. Feldman does not argue against the conclusion A5. He states “So far as I can tell, nothing follows about whether we should fear death” (Feldman 141).
I am a body without intellect; I have no impact on the world. I shouldn’t have to live anymore. What if we did hang ourselves? Our deaths wouldn’t cause any harm to anyone but ourselves, tis rather a selfish thing to do really, but no one would miss us. By now we have probably been forgotten, perhaps a distant memory... or maybe not even one at all...
It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of tracks you lived at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant, even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured? What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
1. Does the fact that juries can make mistakes mean there should be no death penalty, which once inflicted, cannot be withdrawn? Why or why not? A. Absolutely not!
If reality is inevitable, and there is nothing one can do to stop it, change it, alter it, or make it happen, one may want to distance them self or even ignore the possibilities of inevitable events. This only hurts people in the long run because not only did the inevitable happen, but the reality of the inevitable and the occurrence can cause people even more doom and burthen rather than them preparing and adapting and accepting inevitable events. There is an idea of shame when one thinks of “burthen….forever on a man’s shoulder.” Shame
Killing oneself is an attempt to escape the absurd rather than facing it. One cannot accept the world, so one ends their existence in it. This is not a consequence of the absurd, but an escape from it. IV. Consequences of the Absurd
The smallest group concluded divinely determined was not Sophocles' intention to justify the gods at all. Dodds goes on to that Oedipus Rex affirms