Michel de Montaigne, Essays - To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die - Removing Death's Strangeness

11/03/2025 15 min
Michel de Montaigne, Essays - To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die - Removing Death's Strangeness

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die

It focuses upon his analysis of why people unnecessarily fear death, and how we can make death something familiar and thereby less scary to ourselves.

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