DEATH

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person (Lesson)

(STEM 12-PERSEUS) | QUARTER 2-SEM 1 2023

- The acceptance of death will

lead a person to live an
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postponement or self
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deception.
- The knowledge of our
Section 2 (j) - absence of natural
eventual death will give rise
respiratory and cardiac functions
to positive values such as
and attempts at resuscitation would
courage, serenity, patience,
not be successful in restoring those
dignity, and acceptance.
functions.

Section 2 (j) - an irreversible REINCARNATION

cessation of all brain functions;
and considering the attempts at
resuscitation or continued supportive
maintenance would not be successful
in resorting such natural functions.
PHILOSOPHIES ON DEATH
SOCRATES
- Happiness is figuring out
what real virtue is, and
enacting it.
- People who behave badly
may seem happy, but they
are not, no matter how rich
they get.
- People who can act with
virtue are certain to come
into happiness and, very
likely, come into money as
well.
a religious or philosophical belief that
the soul or spirit, after biological
death, begins a new life in a new
body that may be human, animal, or
spiritual depending on the moral
quality of the previous life’s action.
4 NOBLE TRUTHS OF
BUDDHISM
1. Life is suffering
2. The cause of suffering is
desire.
3. To end the suffering, we
must end the desire.
4. To end the desire, we must
follow the Eightfold Path.

PLATO
- The fear of death is only
natural to humans, but death
should be viewed as the
achievement of life.
- The soul is immortal but the
human body is not. The
body is the prison of the
soul. Therefore to set the
soul free, the body must die.

KARL JASPERS