[lit-ideas] Re: Dying: A Philosophical Analysis
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:31:19 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Tue, 17/11/09, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Popper claimed that the moment a man died, he entered
> 'the third
> world':
>
> "The third world is the
> spiritual world of the Greeks.
> Immune
> to the factivity of our
> spatio-temporal limitations,
> once we are
> dead, we enter
> 'immortality', i.e. the third
> world".
>
> Thus,
No thus. Could you place the alleged quote? It doesn't sound like P's use of
language. More to the point, W3 is the world of the contents of thoughts (and
their materialised objects) considered in the abstract. No one goes there when
they die.
D
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