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Ceasing to Exist and Harm Due to Loss of Vitality: A Different Approach to Metaphysics of Death

Ceasing to Exist and Harm Due to Loss of Vitality: A Different Approach to Metaphysics of Death

Murat Baç, “Ceasing to Exist and Harm Due to Loss of Vitality: A Different Approach to Metaphysics of Death,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80, no. 3 (2024): 979–94, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2024_80_3_0979.

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  • Ceasing to Exist and Harm Due to Loss of Vitality: A Different Approach to Metaphysics of Death

    Item Type Journal Article
    Author Murat Baç
    Abstract According to the Epicurean tradition, there is something misleading about our common intuition that we are harmed at death. In contemporary literature, we find proponents of the anti-Epicurean view as well as staunch defenders of the no-harm theory. In this paper, I first deal with the question of the possibility of worldly presence after death and, secondly, with the idea of harm due to death of a person. The gist of my claim is that a non-absolutistic approach to the whole problematic of harm seems to have a better explanatory power in this context. In the course of my discussion, I coin and elucidate the phrase “loss of vitality” and assert that it may provide us with a more useful notion in the metaphysical treatment of death and harm. I also distinguish two perspectives with regard to being harmed and claim that there is a notable issue about being harmed at death especially when the matter is regarded internally, in contrast to an external point of view.
    Date 2024
    Language English
    Rights © 2024 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural
    Volume 80
    Pages 979-994
    Publication Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
    DOI 10.17990/RPF/2024_80_3_0979
    Issue 3
    ISSN 0870-5283 ; 2183-461X
    Date Added 10/30/2024, 8:54:31 PM
    Modified 10/30/2024, 9:15:07 PM

    Tags:

    • death, Epicurus, externality, harm, internality, loss of vitality.

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