Der Tod

The fear of the end of life and the uncertainty about what comes after death have always troubled, distressed, or even tormented people. At the center of the philosophical discourse on death are four questions: What is death? Is death a good or an evil, or neither? Is it rational to fear death? And how should I approach my own death? This volume gathers the most important texts, including those by Plato, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Nagel, which illuminate these existential questions from various perspectives.