Category: Lucretius
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Benatar on the Lucretian Symmetry Argument
This is the ninth installment in a series on David Benatar's The Human Predicament (Oxford UP, 2017). We now take up the Lucretian symmetry argument insofar as it bears upon the question whether being dead is bad. That is what Benatar maintains. Being dead is bad for the one who is dead even though to be dead is to be…