A New Reading of Epicurean`s Facing Death in the Modern World

Facing death has always been regarded as a main philosophical issue in human`s life. Major philosophical traditions have given it abundant attention and tried to analyze it as the most serious concern of humans. One of the main ancient philosophical traditions, Epicurean relying on human wisdom tries to address this issue. Death, since the Stone Age, has brought alterations to the context of societies so that fear of death is currently seriously investigated by philosophers and psychologists, specially the change in the concept of death to an evil/despicable event. It was once presumed as a journey with this world or the other world nature in the pre-modern world, while now a social challenge with numerous effects. The current study aims to illustrate how it would be possible to re-interpret Epicurean`s doctrine in the modern world. This re-reading has its foundations on the hypothesis that argument therapy enables humans to face death in the modern world.