Death Chapter 45
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Hi everyone, my name is Juanita, and I'm going to present death. That is chapter 45
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by thomas Nagel in our exploring Catholics text,
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let's get started.
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Who is thomas Nagel thomas Nagel is in a
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live american professor of philosophy and law Emirates.
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He has several books, like the View from nowhere,
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which explores a number of different philosophies and the
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meaning of life and significance of death and ethics.
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He taught at a number of notable institutions and universities, which includes N.
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Y. U. In Princeton,
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Which he was a teacher from a 1980 to 2016.
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He argues that someone dying at 20 is more tragic than someone that dies at
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80 because of the years of life that 20 year old could have experienced.
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It's not about actual death.
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Part that is evil, it is the life that was lost, that is evil.
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And this is what Thomas argues
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what is death? According to thomas.
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Nagel, death is the unequivocal, impermanent and of our existence,
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meaning that if death is part of life,
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is it a bad thing that we die eventually.
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Nagel states that living a life is what you make
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of it with certain experience that makes life good.
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Even with good or bad, it is part of life.
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If death is the opposite of good,
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it's the loss of life that is evil and not the state of being dead.
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Here's his theory,
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there are two indications that object to death or nonexistence. One
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thomas means the suspension of life means that if people could live forever,
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we wouldn't miss out on the things we can live for or see.
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But to thomas said none of us were alive before we were born,
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which means that we did miss out
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on life before our existence, which doesn't matter because we weren't born yet.
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Bye sad state meaning of death. This is common because of the fear of death.
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He states that we fear death because we imagine what it's like to be dead.
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This dream is impossible because nobody knows what it's like to be dead.
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This scares us because it's unknown.
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This corresponds with death being bad and life being good,
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even though nobody knows what happens after death, How do we know? It's not not good,
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but what,
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what death removes it removes life in general and the loss of what death holds for us,
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which he questions are we
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can help the future of people and understand the mistakes that were
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were made and help everyone achieve new concepts and technologies.
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Here are a few examples.
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Here's a video from crash course that shows
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the perspective from other philosophies and thomas.
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Nagel himself on the perspective of death,
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thomas shares the issues that arise from the ability to accept death.
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One
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doubt the doubt that something can hurt you
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and thinking that you are not invincible,
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There is doubt that there is any evil
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possible good and people knowing about it,
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there are different.
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There are difficulties of how death comes and how long it lasts.
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If the person is still conscious they are not yet
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dead and once he is not conscious or doesn't exist, it's when you have died.
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If death is bad or evil, how do we know that we don't exist from the cemetery?
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I just mentioned
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thomas said that death is evil because of the good things or death deprived them up,
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meaning that there is more of life that you
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can live and death stops that from happening.
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He states that you can miss out on all the possibilities
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that humans could be diverse or grow over the years.
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Being dead is unimaginable and it's just a speculation
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that has no content to go off of.
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It's not about being dead.
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He said it's the unknown consciousness that we don't hold any
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concept too because we don't know what happened after death.
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We, as humans think that death can be harmful because of the lack of knowledge.
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We hold about death or being dead.
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We hope that maybe there is reincarnation or heaven or hell after death.
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We try to make the best of an impossible situation because
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we don't have the experience or knowledge to actually know.
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Nagle tries to maintain the value to accept the nature of death,
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which we have to consider all the possibilities of life.
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Life,
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which all the good and all the bad that you make it from meaning that you can
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die happy with all the good parts of your life that you have done or experience or
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you can remember all the bad,
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which makes death seem scared because you didn't fulfill happiness in your life
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my thought,
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my thoughts on Niggles theory of death or that I do agree with it and disagree with it.
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The reason being is that there are human instincts that
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can change your mind when you think about it.
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The values and beliefs come from chapter 45 is
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that Thomas believes in life and since he doesn't know
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about what death is actually like, he must accept that death is not bad or good.
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It just is
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my point and my values of this chapter shows that
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even though I can understand that death is inevitable,
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your body can go into survival mode
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where we are scared to die, even if we don't think we are.
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So there's that to argue.
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However, I agree with his argument that nobody knows what death is like.
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So why should we think about dying until we're actually dying?
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I agree with thomas Nagel, when he says
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Is a tragedy for a 20 year old to die than an 80 year old to die?
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There is life to live in years for us to experience.
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However,
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is there really any more life to live when you're old or if you can stay alive?
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Is there anything else to live for?
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I feel like since death is part of life it is meant to happen because you already lived
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if you've already seen the world had kids and made a home for yourself,
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is there anything more you can experience?
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This is my question to thomas Nagel,
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this this is a blind spot in novels theory.
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Because what is there to see or do I understand that?
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People can't comprehend what death is like and that scares them. But we make this guy
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scary because we don't accept death,
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not just our mind, but our physical instinct to survive.
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So when humans are faced with death,
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they think there is not enough time in the world to experience
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the things that
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you haven't seen.
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This is understandable, but ultimately, ultimately not avoidable,
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non avoidable.
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Like our instinct to stay alive.
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I think that this might change the way Nagle interprets
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death because he has no not accounted for meaning. There is a fault in his theory.
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To my understanding, humans get scared of the unknown,
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but this is unknown that we must accept till we die
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From Chapter 45.
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In conclusion of death,
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Thomas Nagel has made excellent examples and arguments on why life is worth living,
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and that evil of death is not actually the state that you were dead,
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it's the soul and the life that was lost,
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but the state of being dead and all the experiences and
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diversity you could have seen if you did not die.
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Thank you for listening and watching my presentation. I hope you enjoyed