Heidegger, death, Epicurus
> CB: Don't you know that around here the question you don't want asked gets asked first ? :>)
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> So, what does Heidegger give us that we didn't already have ? ( You don't have to mention his politics)
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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
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CB: Does Heidegger mention Epicurus ? According John Foster Bellamy in _Marx's Ecology_, Marx said in the study of his ph.d thesis, "It can be said that in the Epicurean philosophy it is death that is the immortal. The atom, the void, accident, arbitrariness and composition are themselves death. "