Exploring Conflicting Viewpoints
8th Grade · ELA · 45 min
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Learning Objective
I can identify different perspectives on a single topic.
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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.
