Abstract

As a cognitivist about emotions, Socrates takes the fear of death to be a belief that death is a bad thing for the one who dies. Socrates, however, thinks there are reasons for thinking death is not a bad thing at all, and might even be a blessing. So the question considered in this paper is: how would Socrates explain the fact that so many people believe death is bad?

Presenters

Irina Deretic

Nicholas D. Smith
James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, Departments of Classics and Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, Oregon, United States

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Literary Humanities

KEYWORDS

Socrates, Death, Fear of Death, Ignorance, False Belief

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