Epicurus · Philosophy

Death Is Nothing to Us

Epicurus’ celebrated argument that death is not an evil and should not be feared - because death is the end of all sensation, and where there is no sensation there is no one to be harmed: ‘where death is, we are not; where we are, death is not.’

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You learned Epicurus’ argument that ‘death is nothing to us’: all good and evil lie in sensation, death is the end of sensation, so when death is present we no longer exist to experience it - ‘where death is, we are not; where we are, death is not.’ Explain why he thought the fear of death is i…

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