Exploring Conflicting Viewpoints
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Objective
I can identify different perspectives on a single topic.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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Socrates believed that death was either a dreamless sleep which would be nice, or a passage to another life where he could philosophize with great thinkers.
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Epicurus, an ancient Stoic philosopher, believed that death is the cessation of sensation and therefore cannot be good nor evil.
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Thomas Nagel suggests that fearing death is like a philosophical FOMO, but asks why we don't feel a sense of loss for all the cool things we missed before we were born.
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Practice
8 questions
Socrates believed there were two possibilities regarding death. What were they?
According to Epicurus, why is death not something to be feared?
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Exit ticket
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“Name two different perspectives on death discussed in the video and briefly describe each.”
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