PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Ataraxia, Thomas Nagel, Epicurus
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Afterlife is not the issue, we"re discussing absolute extinction ceasing to exist. Can be a bad for loved ones, however focus will be on whether it is good or bad for the person dying"s perspective. View is that death not good nor bad, it is a matter of difference for the person that dies. One shouldn"t care, not have positive or negative position, about death. Thus when one dies, they no longer experience pain nor pleasure, and death is neither good nor bad. Death is a state of extinction, you"d only be ashes, thus no pain/pleasure. If one is extinction, one is no longer there to be deprived of either pleasure or pain (you don"t know that you"re deprived thus not really deprived) Eg. while someone can hate or like the nhl lockout, one can be indifferent. Even though it"s a significant event that everyone experiences. This argument is valid doesn"t seem very realistic.