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The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Death
Montaigne writes, ‘He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.’ This is an astonishing conclusion: the premeditation of death is nothing less than the forethinking of freedom. Seeking to escape death, then, is to remain unfree and run away from ourselves. The…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Points in time are not observable
Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not…