odwaga-i-dzialanie: Seneka Młodszy

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What death is. A literary approach between fears and hope.. Men “cannot link the beginning with the end that is to follow the circular path of motion which is followed by divine stars” (Alcmeon of Croton, 510?-440 BC). “Lifelong one should learn the art of living, lifelong one should learn to die” “Death chases me, life eludes me. Teach me how to handle the situation. Help me to escape death, help me to keep life, prolong my short time. Teach me that the value of life does not consist in his duration, but in its use”. (Lucius Anneus Seneca, 4 BC or 4 AD?- 65AD).. Source: Annali dell Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Year: 2014

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Lucretius and the fears of death. The Epicureans argued that death was nothing to us and that we should not fear death, and this thesis takes up these arguments as they appear in our fullest extant source, the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius. After an initial look at the general Epicurean theory of emotions, the thesis narrows in on the fears of death. Lucretius starts from a popular dichotomy concerning death: death is either the utter destruction of the person who dies, or the person survives in some form. Each belief has its own fear. On the one side, people fear complete annihilation, and on the other side, people fear the possibility of an eternal afterlife of suffering and punishment. In…

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The Death We Fear Is Not Our Own: The Folk Psychology of Souls Revisited and Reframed

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