He speaks about the focusing on the Now, the day-to-day and the special wisdom in appreciating our life as it lived. He speaks about the intensity in feeling such awareness can give. Russ Roberts speaks about the bittersweet quality, the poignance which can come with appreciating moments in the one life we have knowing that they will one day not be again. And perhaps he set an example for all of us, which quivering souls like myself just do not have the courage and faith to live in accordance with. I will immediately chide myself with Spinoza’s famous remark, “The free man thinks of nothing less than Death and his meditation is a meditation on Life” Spinoza was the one great philosopher who according to Will Durant lived in accordance with his own teaching. As I myself am with Setiya on this and admit also to greatly fearing Death. This is very rich and interesting conversation and there is too much to comment on so I will confine my remarks to its last section in which Russ Roberts tries to somehow diminish Kieran Setiya’s strongly proclaimed fear of death.
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