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Epicureanism About Death and Immortality

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In this paper I discuss some of Martha Nussbaum’s defenses of Epicurean views about death and immortality. Here I seek to defend the commonsense view that death can be a bad thing for an individual against the Epicurean; I also defend the claim that immortality might conceivably be a good thing. In the development of my analysis, I make certain connections between the literatures on free will and death. The intersection of these two literatures can be illuminated by reference to my notion of a Dialectical Stalemate.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    John Martin Fischer

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Fischer, J.M. Epicureanism About Death and Immortality. J Ethics 10, 355–381 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-006-9004-1

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