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Perspective voyage · Fourth to third century BCE

Epicurus — Death is nothing to us

If death is absent while we exist and we are absent when death arrives, what reason remains to fear it in advance?

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Epicurus argues that good and bad depend on sensation and death is the deprivation of sensation, so death is nothing to us.

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  • Epicurus

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §4.1 Fear of Death; Letter to Menoeceus 124–127

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300 BCE · Around 300 BCE

The Letter to Menoeceus dismantles fear of death through an argument about sensation and time.

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