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  • (As for me, when you want a laugh, you will find me in fine fettle, fat and sleek, a hog from Epicurus's herd) close window

    Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire' 2007

  • So Heidegger agrees with Epicurus's premise three: 'Death, as possibility, gives Dasein nothing to be "actualized", nothing which Dasein, as actual, could itself be.'

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • Epicurus's argument follows something like these steps:1 Something can matter to us only if we can experience it.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • Of course death is not like blindness in the sense that death is not something I can experience while in that condition see Epicurus's premise 3.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • At the same time, Epicurus's conclusion seems absurd: of course my death matters to me.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • Heidegger's view of death helps us understand where Epicurus's argument goes wrong.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • It comes in the form of “Epicurus's old questions” which remain “unanswered” (D, 100).

    Hume on Religion Russell, Paul 2005

  • However, though he shares most of Epicurus's claims about atoms (and many Epicurean arguments for those claims),

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • Foot of _Epicurus's_ Deities, who were too indolent to look after the World themselves, and left the Task of Providence to Chance and Second Causes.

    The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

  • Athens, or to Epicurus's meditations in his garden.

    Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

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