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On maranasati, momento mori & week 8 of 52

death contemplation to release fear

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Jen Knox
Jul 09, 2024
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“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” —Seneca

What does it mean to live and die well?

One of my favorite living philosophers, Kieran Setiya, asks this question in a lot of his…

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