PHIL 201 Lecture : nagel on death as an evil
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He immediately recognizes that we don"t experience death. We see it, but we don"t experience it ourselves. So we kinda know it in an indirect way. We know it means an end to a life. There is an asymmetry from life and death. Were familiar with life in that way, but not with death. We"ve lived life, but we don"t experience death. Religious--many people deal with death by defining that it isn"t a final thing. Maybe in part to make you feel better about death and about your existence. But were thinking about death in terms of what it very well could be. Because most of us still value life as a good thing, then we view death as a bad thing. Every morning you wake up and still look forward to more possibilities and more things to look forward to. You still look positively about life even when you are very old.
