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Death as Harm: Objections Against Epicurean Conception of Relation to Death
 Tesař, Antonín ; Thein, Karel (advisor) ; Jirsa, Jakub (referee)
The thesis examines the epicurean arguments according to which death isn't an evil for the deceased and so it isn't rational to fear it. The focus of the thesis is the contemporary debate of these arguments. Our central question is whether it is possible to hold consistently the position equivalent to epicurean arguments and whether such position can stand against the criticism of contemporary opponents of epicurean arguments. After the brief discussion of historical epicureism the thesis examines four contemporary texts which criticize epicurean position. It concentrates on these questions: 1) the way these text interpret epicurean position, 2) relevancy of this criticism in relation to historical epicurean arguments, 3) convincingness of this criticism and its premises, 4) possible reactions of contemporary advocate of epicurean arguments to this criticism. Based on this examination the thesis states a number of commitments that the contemporary advocate of epicurean arguments has to hold to be immune to the criticism of this debate. Such position demands a certain concept of good and evil in which both are described as momentary states that their subject is able to feel directly. The examination of institution of epicurean friendship leads us to conclusion that such position also doesn't exclude...
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