Epicureans and Death
The passages from Lucretius are certainly interesting and in my eyes seem to be logical explanations for the soul. These epicureans do seem to believe in a soul, but Lucretius wants to figure out what happens to the soul in the general. What happens to the soul after our body dies? What happens to our mind or memory? There are questions with no true answers because we will truly never know until we are dead. The body is the soul's cage and the soul grows with us. Or the soul could just be an idea, it's all in our head, our mind is what could be giving us morale. They say that we truly are not going to survive death. So why worry about dying if we don't go anywhere? Death can be terrifying. In my case death is somewhat terrifying because I don't want to be in some void for the rest of eternity, life seems pointless to me if all we were was a cage. So I ask how do you guys feel about death?
Death is inevitable, it is something that is going to happen to all of us whether we like or not. We should focus on living our best life. I feel like if we focus too much on the future, we cannot focus on living in the present. Unfortunately, death is nothing new to me. It is something that have been able to encounter but never experience it hence why I am still alive to this day. I feel like death should be normalized since it is something we will all experience.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good premise in this post you just have to develop it and put more background information for your readers to answer properly.I think that this blog post is vague in the sense that if I have never read Lucretius I would be confused. I also think that you are asking us too many questions without fleshing out your argument. You can either concentrate on the ramification of life without death if Lucretius is right or try to find flaws in his argument.
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