PHIL-360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lucretius, Epicurus, Survivalism
27 Oct 2016
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Feldman chapter 6: the survival of death [89] For people: ttp: if a person dies at a time, then he or she ceases to exist at that time. Difference between simply ceasing to exist and ceasing to exist as something or other. Terminators believe that when a person dies, he or she simply ceases to exist. Some philosophers who have accepted the termination thesis [91] Epicurus: death is nothing to us because when death comes, then we do not exist. Peter dalton: when a man is dead he no longer exists and will never again exist. Roy perrett: appears to ascribe to a broader, biological termination thesis: tto: if a biological organism dies at a time, then it simply ceases to exist at that time. This could be generalized even further: ttu: if a living thing dies at a time, then it simply ceases to exist at that time.
