Death Stings Back: A Reply to Sorensen's "The Cheated God"
Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2005
Abstract
Lucretius argues that death does not harm the person who dies. Harm could occur only if a person’s future non-existence were harmful. But one’s future non-existence is no more harmful than one’s non-existence prior to being born. Since a person is not harmed by lacking existence prior to being born, it follows that one is not harmed by lacking existence after dying. There is thus no need to fear death’s sting
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Citation
NOWACKI, Mark, "Death Stings Back: A Reply to Sorensen's "The Cheated God"" (2005). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 61.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/61
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/61
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