Philosophical concept

Death is nothing to us

For Epicurus, death is nothing to us: what has dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation no longer concerns us.

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Passages
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Thinkers
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Traditions
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Understand uses of the concept

For Epicurus, death is nothing to us: what has dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation no longer concerns us.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7 passages across 7 works, including Tusculan Disputations, Enchiridion of Epictetus, Letter to Menoeceus. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: mort n’est rien, mort n'est rien, death is nothing, absence de sensation, deprivation of sensation, στέρησις αἰσθήσεως

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  2. Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
  3. Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 1 passages
  4. Principal DoctrinesEpicurus · 0 passages
  5. Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
  6. Socrates in Plato’s GorgiasPlato · 0 passages