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Lucretius argues that fearing death is not rational and gives two arguments for the claim: 1) The no subject of harm argument , and 2) The symmetry argument. Try to critique these arguments.
The no subject of harm argument (3. 865-903)
1)You will die.
2)Something is bad for you only if you mind it.
3)If you don’t mind it, it wouldn’t be a bad thing for you.
4)You won’t mind being dead when you are dead.
5)It won’t be a bad thing for you then that are dead.
The symmetry argument (3. 971-977)
1)You didn’t exist for many years in the past.
2)There’s nothing fearful about that.
3)So why be bothered by the fact that you won’t exist in the future?
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus). On the Nature of Things. Trans. by A.E. Stallings. Penguin Books, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-140-44796-5.
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