PHIL 209J Lecture 5: Lecture 5 PHIL209j
6 Oct 2016
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Accounts that focus on wellbeing and welfare. Accounts that focus on freedom or autonomy. Death is greatest harm to victim: typically the victim did not want to die, typically death is bad for the victim. **difference between wanting something and whether it is good or bad for you** Why is death bad for the victim: life is valuable, death deprives us of life, suffering a loss. Two puzzles: epicuris irrational fear of death. B: as long as we exist death is not with us and when death comes we will not exist , after we die we will not mind being dead. Death deprives us of life: cannot be alive after death, clarify what death is. Death v. dying: death: state of being, dying: experience. Distinction: death of body, death of a person. Immortality of the mind/soul means person does not die. Conjecture: death is bad because it destroys our life as a person.
