[lit-ideas] Re: Life leads to death
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 01:01:30 +0000 (GMT)
> So, we judge retrospectively, but we do not call the dead
> happy; we say that their lives were or were not happy, and
> as Wittgenstein says, death is not an event in life; we do
> not live to experience death.
Maybe. But this is an interestg view of W's apercu: I had his thought was more
general: for one, we do live to experience death (not it's after-affects,
obv.). He didn't say "Being dead is not an event in life". He was talking about
the metapys. of experience and what can or cannot be said about them.
D
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