Think
- Think / Volume 6 / Issue 16 / December 2008, pp 59-68
- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2008
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1477175600002426 (About DOI), Published online: 22 July 2009
Research Article
Is death a bad thing?
Mikel Burley
Abstract
After examining arguments for and against the view that death is a bad thing, Mikel Burley tentatively endorses the Epicurean claim that death cannot rationally be judged bad. For moral reasons, however, this conclusion is acceptable only with regard to one's own death.
Mikel Burley teaches in the School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds.
