Examples Of The Second Objection To Nagel

Nagel is debating about death being an evil. He starts by asking a thought-provoking question that if death puts an end to our existence then is death bad? Life is everything we have and death takes life from us, so thinking this way makes death bad. If we think the other way round, then death putting an end to our existence means there is no entity (person) left to experience death, which arises the question that in what way can death be bad. According to Nagel, death is not bad because of the features it has but because of what it denies us of. Moreover, he argues that life has bad experiences and good experiences but if we put them aside then life itself is precious. Also we don’t find the time before our birth as a misfortune because we have a life to live after we are born. Death takes away all possibilities we have …show more content…
The second objection is that, since there is no entity left after death then who is suffering the terror of death. There is no one left to suffer the evil of death thus how could death be evil. Nagel gave a very plausible reply to this objection. He responded that death taking the life of the person, which the person could have enjoyed even longer, is an evil itself. Therefore the person still suffers the evil of death by not existing and not having to experience more of life.

The argument Nagel places is very reasonable and sound. In fact, I even tried to look positively at death, for example knowing death is unavoidable makes us live our life even more fully and enjoy every moment of it. Turns out trying to have a positive view about death does not really seem to work either and I still agree with Nagel’s point of view. Since the life that we try to enjoy fully thinking that death could come anytime, is taken away from us. Death stops us from doing what we want to do. Simply put, Nagel’s argument is very sensible and I certainly agree with