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Herbert Fingarette wrote a series of “philosophical soundings” about this concept, which he later contradicted in a 2018 video essay that was republished by The Atlantic. Interest in the work of Otto Rank was revived by a 1973 book by Ernest Becker titled for the denial of this concept. This concept is the subject of a symmetry argument proposed at the end of the third book of De rerum natura. In his Letter to Menoeceus (“men-EE-see-us”), Epicurus argues that this concept “is nothing to us” because only the expectation of it causes pain. In the Phaedo, a philosopher advises against fearing this concept via a series of arguments for the immortality of the soul. For 10 points, Socrates experienced what event after drinking hemlock? ■END■
ANSWER: death [or word forms like dying; accept mortality; accept fear of death; accept The Denial of Death; accept “A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death”; accept Death: Philosophical Soundings]
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Nathan Zhang | Cornell C | Vassar | 46 | 10 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Princeton A | 68 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Yale C | 69 | 10 |
Alex Moon | Penn A | Princeton B | 87 | 10 |
Ben Sterling | Yale A | Rutgers B | 90 | 10 |
Lukas Koutsoukos | Yale B | NYU B | 91 | 10 |
William Helman | Bard A | Columbia B | 96 | 10 |
Vincent Zhang | Penn B | Haverford | 101 | -5 |
John Shelley | Rowan A | Columbia C | 109 | -5 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford | Penn B | 123 | 10 |