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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- 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
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
- Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 1 passages
- Principal DoctrinesEpicurus · 0 passages
- Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s GorgiasPlato · 0 passages