Epicurus's Thoughts on Death

The greatest fear of mankind is death. According to Epicurus, the soul is a material article. The body of the soul is no other part of the body. Because it is also part of the body. If a person agrees with the epiculus, there is a reason to believe that when the body of someone dies, the soul will die. Epicuras suggests that there is no reason for people to fear death. He says that people are afraid, "I expect some eternal pain, as happened in the myths, or they death as if they were something that directly affected them Fear of the loss of the emotions themselves caused by themselves.

Epicuras was one of the major philosophers of the Hellenistic era in the 3 rd century BC Azaxanda the Great died in 323 B.C. (And Aristotle in 322 BC). Epicuras developed self-evident metaphysical metaphysics, empiricism epistemology and hedonistic ethics. Epicuras teaches that the basic constituent elements of the world are atoms, uncleavable substances, flying in the air, and he is trying to explain all natural phenomena in atomic terms. Epicurus rejected the existence of platonic form and invisible soul and said that God would not affect our lives. Epicurus also believes that doubt is unacceptable and we can rely on feeling to understand the world. He teaches that all actions must be happy for themselves (considered as tranquility). It can be achieved by limiting my desire and eliminating God and fear of death.

Epicuras is the founder of philosophical thought called epicurenism. Humans need to live a happy and peaceful life, which is why Epicurean can develop his philosophy. According to Epicurus, in order to live a happy life for people, they should eliminate fear and experience any aspect of suffering. According to him, evil brings pain, good will bring happiness (Keefe, 2010). Epicurus further states that death means personal soul and the end of the body, so you do not need to worry about it. He further pointed out that there is no life after death, and if dead gods can not punish humans.

One of the fundamental beliefs of epiculus is that death need not worry you. According to Epicurus, this is the key to finding personal happiness, along with the other three main beliefs. Epicuras believes that death is only the end of existence. It is only the end of a sensory experience, so there is nothing to see. Once you die you will not notice the surroundings of yourself and you will lose your life. It is based on this point of view to explore the idea that Epicurus is actually nothing dead. In the letter to Menous, Epicuras explains as follows. "The fact that death is unrelated to us makes the death of life a matter of contentment by eliminating the desire for eternal life, not by increasing infinite time ... ... So, Death, the most frightening things are bad, we have nothing; When we exist, there is no death, when death exists, we do not exist