The causal history/ cognitive explanation of the idea of death being bad is not the same as a justification for it
I think of this as a feature, not a bug. Death doesn’t have some inherent essence du badness that we could extract and bottle. So if we understand what people are telling us about themselves when they say “being dead would be bad for me,” there’s not much left to worry over.
I think of this as a feature, not a bug. Death doesn’t have some inherent essence du badness that we could extract and bottle. So if we understand what people are telling us about themselves when they say “being dead would be bad for me,” there’s not much left to worry over.
Except for the question “what should we do?”, i.e. normative philosophy.