Four-dimensionalism, eternalism, and deprivationist accounts of the evil of death

Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Four Dimensionalism ◽  
Evil Of Death

The evil of death

Death ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Scarre
Keyword(s):  
Evil Of Death

Monism and Statespace Structure

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Sider
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Four Dimensionalism

Exotic ontologies are all the rage. Distant from common sense and often science as well, views like mereological essentialism, nihilism, and four-dimensionalism appeal to our desire to avoid arbitrariness, anthropocentrism, and metaphysical conundrums.

How Bad Is Death?

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Popular View ◽  
The One ◽  
Evil Of Death

A popular view about why death is bad for the one who dies is that death deprives its subject of the good things in life. This is the ‘deprivation account’ of the evil of death. The deprivation account might be considered the ‘received view’ concerning the evil of death. But the deprivation account entails that there need be no relationship between the disvalue of someone's death and the quality of the life that preceded it. It is often thought that a person's death is less tragic, or less bad, if she has lived a good life or accomplished great things.

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