1. Philosophy as a Practice for Dying
In this belief he says that death is the separation of soul from body, and this is what philosophers are truly after. ... Philosophers are not concerned with the body or the things that serve it, and the body is actually interfering with this acquisition of knowledge. ... To delve a little further into this one must compare the argument of death between the normal person and a philosopher. ... This is what separates philosophers from the "non-philosophers." Man "train[s] himself in life to live in a state as close to death as possible, and then resent[s] it when it comes," while a philosop...
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