Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
In his famous “Letter”, Epicurus writes to his young friend Menoeceus that “Death is nothing” — either to fear or to hope for.1 This counsel further suggests that death is not something one can claim as his/her own, and that even its contemplation brings “a craving for immortality”, and so, loosens the fragile hold we have on the life of the soul.
Editor
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Identifier
10.1007/978-94-009-2335-5_16
Publisher
Springer
City
Dordrecht
ISBN
9789400923355, 9789401075503
Repository Citation
Kimmel, L. (1990). Death, and the elemental passion of the soul: An ancient philosophical thesis, with poetic counterpoint. In A-T. Tymieniecka (Ed.), Analecta Husserliana: The yearbook of phenomenological research, XXVIII: The elemental passions of the soul (pp. 389-397). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Publication Information
Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research