Ah, here is where I first encountered you April 1st via Daily Nous and before our small library group started reading aloud and discussing Iris Murdoch's "The Sovereignty of Good." Back then I read and liked some of your posts. After independently starting "Sovereignty" this month, I found and spent some hours in your essays about Murdoch. Seeing this post again, the threads are connecting up. I'm enjoying this uniqueness, overdetermination and convergences in our histories and appreciating your work. Thank You.
I have terminal brain cancer and think about how to face death rather a lot. My lovely daughter bought me a book for my birthday — How to Die — that presents a bunch of letters by Seneca where he writes about facing death. The gist is that by thinking carefully about death, it becomes just another part of life and no longer something to be afraid of.
I'm not finished with the book yet but I wrote a little summary here:
Thanks for sharing. I teach a course on the philosophy of death and have read Seneca and assigned some of the other Stoics on facing death (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus). I'm not the author of this post so I won't write more. But, thanks, again!
Ah, here is where I first encountered you April 1st via Daily Nous and before our small library group started reading aloud and discussing Iris Murdoch's "The Sovereignty of Good." Back then I read and liked some of your posts. After independently starting "Sovereignty" this month, I found and spent some hours in your essays about Murdoch. Seeing this post again, the threads are connecting up. I'm enjoying this uniqueness, overdetermination and convergences in our histories and appreciating your work. Thank You.
RE: Facing death.
I have terminal brain cancer and think about how to face death rather a lot. My lovely daughter bought me a book for my birthday — How to Die — that presents a bunch of letters by Seneca where he writes about facing death. The gist is that by thinking carefully about death, it becomes just another part of life and no longer something to be afraid of.
I'm not finished with the book yet but I wrote a little summary here:
https://raggedclown.substack.com/p/how-to-die
Thanks for sharing. I teach a course on the philosophy of death and have read Seneca and assigned some of the other Stoics on facing death (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus). I'm not the author of this post so I won't write more. But, thanks, again!