PHL 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epicureanism, E-Book, Shelly Kagan

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 900
• Professor: Andrew Hunter

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Yale lectures - can be downloaded as podcasts from itunes. Reads: confrontations w/ the reaper electronic book in d2l one-stop course readings. Dying is a process that we may be aware and experience it, death is not a process, but rather a state of who how does death differ from the period of before we were born. The symmetry argument epicureans, death = non-existence, a modern view of the world, of atoms and science. There is an attitude we take after we die, that is not taken before we are born, but it is the same state of non-existence, they should be parallel and symmetrical. Can we survive death? phaedo argues that we have immortal souls death is the release of the soul. Behaviour: emotional response to death (fear, terror) Proud - an accomplishment that reflects well on you, your.