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Eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is a philosophical concept which states that time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity.
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
In the philosophy of space and time, eternalism [1] is an approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all existence in time is equally real, as opposed to presentism or the growing block universe theory of time, in which at least the future is not the same as any other time. [2]
For life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly understood that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live. Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present causes only a groundless pain in the ...
Ava Chitwood, Death by Philosophy, University of Michigan Press, 2004. Simon Critchley, Book of Dead Philosophers, Vintage, 2009. David Palfrey, "How Philosophers Die", British Academy Review, Issue 10 (2007) Anthony Quinton, 'Deaths of philosophers', The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford, 1995, 2005.
The reason why the good has to happen to the same subject is because the miserable cannot feel the happiness of the joyful, and hence it has no effect on him. The reason why the good has to happen at the same time is because the future joy does not act backwards in time, and so it has no effect on the present state of the suffering individual.
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"Stoicism and death acceptance: integrating Stoic philosophy in cognitive behaviour therapy for death anxiety". Discover Psychology. 2 (1): 11. doi: 10.1007/s44202-022-00023-9. ISSN 2731-4537. Peltomäki, Isto Johannes (18 November 2023). "Meaningfulness, Death, and Suffering: Philosophy of Meaning in Life in the Light of Finitude". Human Arenas.