Liam DempseyCorresponding author

Comfort in Annihilation
Three Studies in Materialism and Mortality

Article
15/1 - Spring 2010, pages 119-140
Date of online publication: 25 janvier 2016
Date of publication: 30 juin 2010

Abstract

This paper considers three accounts of the relationship between personal immortality and materialism. In particular, the pagan mortalism of the Epicureans is compared with the Christian mortalism of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. It is argued 1) that there are significant similarities between these views, 2) that Locke and Hobbes were, to some extent, influenced by the Epicureans, and 3) that the relation between (im)mortality and (im)materialism is not as straightforward as is commonly supposed.

Cite this article

Dempsey, Liam, Stoyles, Byron. “Comfort in Annihilation: Three Studies in Materialism and Mortality.” Forum Philosophicum 15, no. 1 (2010): 119–40. doi:10.35765/forphil.2010.1501.08.