SOURCE: "Existentialism and the Fear of Dying," in Language, Metaphysics, and Death, Second Edition, Fordham University Press, 1994, pp. 80-100.
In the following essay, Slote uses concepts developed in the writings of Blaise Pascal, S0ren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean Paul Sartre to explain how the fear of death accounts for many aspects of human behavior.
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