Criticizing Lucretius 's Argument On Death

What Lucretius’ claims boil down to is that it does not matter the length of life or when dying occurs, death is never bad.

Death is the most inevitable and unknown aspect of life. It is unescapable, and by most of today’s population, it is feared in the utmost regard. Our materialistic views and constant desertion of religious ideals has forced our society to view death as an ultimate end. Socrates and St. Augustine’s views on death differ from many views on the subject in 2017, however, for their time, these men had the power to influence a plethora of individuals with their theories. For Socrates, death should never be feared and should be considered a blessing if our souls were to ascend to heaven, or death could be an extensive slumber without any dreaming whatsoever. With

Many people attempt to avoid death, and many times those people are successful; however, more often than not, when people face the predicament of dying, they are not fortunate enough to escape the misfortune. Whether a person surpasses the curse of death at one point in time, eventually they will come to meet death; death is inevitable. Virginia Woolf, author of the essay, “The Death of the Moth,” captures the message death is inevitable. Throughout the essay, Woolf follows the short life of a day moth. In following the moth, Woolf comes to the realization that regardless of what she attempts to do to proliferate the decay of the moth, the moth will still succumb to death. To encapsulate the theme in the essay, Woolf uses numerous

Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations talks heavily about how “All things are implicated with one another” and briefly about his views of death.

This realization demonstrates the lack of power that people have over time, and by association, death. The reader assumes that since Salamano and his dog grow old together, they may likely also die together. Nearer to Meursault’s execution, the chaplain asks, “But if you don’t die today, you’ll die tomorrow, or the next day. And then the same question will arise. How will you face that terrifying ordeal” (Camus 117)? Death, unpredictable and uncontrollable, will occur when it wishes, and through his indifference to time, Meursault asserts that getting upset over something known to be inevitable provides as useless.

When Socrates was on trial in Plato’s Apology: Defense of Socrates, he mentioned that it was irrational to fear death. The main reason Socrates made this claim was because we do not know what death is and for all we know it might even be a great thing (Apology 29a). In this essay, I will argue in agreement with Socrates’ claims. It is irrational to fear death not only because of these claims that Socrates made, but also for the reason that the fear of death can put a burden on ourselves in everyday life. In some cases, the fear of death can obscure the ways we make decisions in our lives. If we fear death, which is unknown, and we fear other things that are unknown, then we will probably live life being

Marcus Aurelius' book Meditations gives a clear and concise view of what death is and how man should cope with it. There are many factors that Marcus must take into account when he is pondering about death. There is death on a physical plane of existence and there is death on a supernatural plane of existence. How man is related to both of these concepts can differ drastically but both are equally important concepts in man's view of death. The way that man approaches death and how he should view it in life are other factors that also play an important role in Marcus' philosophy of death.

The first premise to the conclusion is that the worst part of death is the ultimate loss of future possible contributions to

Bernard Williams Markopoulos case focuses on the topic of immortality, and the issues that arise from the status of being immortal. Williams uses the concept of the play to refute the idea of immortality. This is due to the end of the Markopoulos play, where the immortal protagonist kills themselves out of the unbearable boredom of exhausting their categorical desires. Whereas Fischer rejects Williams view of immortality, due to the limiting constraints of his argument. Fischer asserts the immortal life would be livable, because it reflects a mortal life. In effect, I will further Fischer’s argument on the basis that an immortal life would be livable, on the account of packaged and repeatable goods. Therefore, this essay will explain the

87 Thomas Nagel starts his gathering of articles with a most interesting discussion about death. Death being a standout amongst the most clearly imperative subjects of consideration, Nagel takes an intriguing approach as he tries to define the truth as to whether death is or is not a damage for that single person. He starts by taking a gander at the very common perspectives of death that are held by a great many people in the world, and lets us know that he will talk of death as the "Unequivocal and permanent end to our existence" and looks at the actual nature of death itself. The first view that Nagel chooses to talk about is the perspective that death is awful for us on the grounds that it denies us of more life.Nagel gives an example of death and being in a coma before dying. Looking now at what is not good about death rather than what is great about life, Nagel shows a few evident thoughts in regards to this point. So death is awful in light of the fact that it denies us of these encounters, not on account of the genuine condition of death is terrible for us. The second issue is that which needs to do with who the subject of mischief brought on by death is, and when

Death is among the greatest mysteries of the human existence, one of the issues being that neither science, religion, or philosophy have definitive explanations on it. Although Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explore death and dying, the former advocates for people to be more optimistic in these circumstances than the latter. Station Eleven’s characters focus their thoughts on living and improving their situation to achieve their goals while Hamlet's characters concentrate on dying and how to end the misery of life, as they are hopeless to change their fate. The ability to make decisions result in opposite outcomes for the characters in each text as Station Eleven’s characters have free will and are rewarded for using it, whereas Hamlet’s characters are punished for seeking to control their future. The development of each character’s life is due to their respective text favouring or punishing free will. The consequences of exercising free will in Station Eleven yield positive results because humans can control their own destiny in a world of death, while in Hamlet, contrarily, humans are controlled by fate and have to endure the consequences of attempting to defeat it.

Socrates believes that the entire philosophical endeavor is a preparation for death and that the true philosopher looks forward to dying. His students, however, cannot understand why the philosopher should want to die, and Socrates hopes to dispel their fears of death while bringing them to an awareness of a figurative death where desires cease to control the soul . In addition to noticing the figurative nature of death, he also wants them to give further consideration to the literal death as well.

Albert Camus argued that human life is rendered meaningless by death, which prevents the individual from making sense of existence.

At the most basic level of subconscious thought, every living animal possesses a desire to stay alive. Usually, this instinct lays dormant, although in dire situations, we can be led to do unexpected things. In addition to this subconscious drive, there is a socially constructed motivation for fearing death. Thanks to the pervasive nature of religion throughout history, much of humanity has, at some point or another, feared the prospect of eternal damnation and torture during one’s life after death. Although not every religion has a negative aspect of the afterlife, or even any semblance of an afterlife at all, those religions which do contain some such construct receive much more attention in this regard. Throughout history, many

Lucretius introduces his argument with an explanation as to why death evokes such fear while at the same time assuring that he will eliminate those fears by disproving