Oodles and oodles of rights

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 5 13:33:18 PST 2002


Ian Murray wrote:
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<<<The notion that modernity's focus on material conditions for the good life lacks a way of understanding death that has nothing to do with Christianity and other non-modernist orientations to death.<<< Ian

This is I guess a matter of personal response. I still find Lucretius pretty satisfactory: when you're dead you won't know it so what's the fuss. The phrase "understanding of death" gives "Death" a capital letter -- which seems silly.

Carrol



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