Resumo
This article is a response to ‘Fear of death and the symmetry argument’, in this issue. In that article, the author discusses the above Lucretian symmetry argument, and proposes a view that justifies the existing asymmetry in our attitudes towards birth and death. I begin by distinguishing this symmetry argument from a different one, also loosely inspired by Lucretius, which also plays a role in the article. I then describe what I take to be the author’s solution to the original symmetry argument (i.e. the one above) and explain why I am unpersuaded by it.Referências
JOHANSSON, J. Mortal Beings: On the Metaphysics and Value of Death. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005.
LUCRETIUS On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith, Cambridge: Hackett, 2001
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