This Lucretian ‘symmetry argument’ (see Warren 2004; also Death 2.3 ), which has enjoyed widespread discussion in the recent philosophical literature on death, is found in company with a whole battery of further arguments for acquiescing in the prospect of one's own dissolution.
To fear a future state of death, Lucretius argues, is to make the conceptual blunder of supposing yourself present to regret and bewail your own non-existence. The reality is that being dead will be no worse (just as it will be no better) than it was, long ago, not yet to have been born. This Lucretian ‘symmetry argument’ (see Warren 2004; also Death 2.3 ), which has enjoyed widespread discussion in the recent philosophical literature on death, is found in company with a whole battery of further arguments for acquiescing in the prospect of one's own dissolution. Book 4's treatment of sex (1037–1287) includes a matching diatribe, denouncing and deriding the folly of enslavement to sexual passion (1121–1191).
drastically shifts how we see death;
V. QING CONFUCIANISM
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Frank Nixon refused to take handouts, so he passed up the county hospital where “lungers,” as TB victims were sometimes called, could get free care, opting instead to pay for an expensive private sanatorium. When the money ran out, Hannah Nixon took her sick eldest son into the dry mountains of Prescott, Arizona, and set up a boarding house for Harold and a couple of other TB patients. Richard and his younger brother Donald were left at home in Whittier to fend with their father.
