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• Death Everything in our existence points beyond itself. We must nevertheless die. We cannot grasp the ground of being. Our desires are insatiable. Our lives fail adequately to express our natures; our circumstances regularly subject us to belittlement. Religion has been both an attempt to interpret the meaning of these irreparable flaws in the huma...
• Life is the greatest good.
• We exceed immeasurably the social and cultural worlds that we build and inhabit.
• The finality of this annihilation, in contrast to the vibrant presence that preceded it, is the first and fundamental reason why death is terrible.
• At any given moment on our planet, as Schopenhauer reminded us, countless living creatures tear one another apart the better to live a while longer.