Simon Critchley: To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die | The New School

Fridays@One: Simon Critchley - To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die
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English philosopher Simon Critchley, chair and professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, discusses his 2009 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Dead Philosophers. Starting with Cicero's axiom, To philosophize is to learn how to die, Professor Critchley leads us to his conclusion that to die is to learn how to live. The Daily Telegraph called the book "rigorous, profound, and frequently hilarious and described Critchley as an engaging and deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis as well as bracingly serious and properly comic.

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* Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. 10/09/2009 1:00 p.m.

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• Death
• How to Live
• How to Die

[MrPEDOCTOR]

nonsense speech.

[highway234]

sorry, leibniz, i meant.

[highway234]

10:50 spinoza's death, i think, is my favorite.

[schzx]

Sour grapes anyone?

[osu]

Thank you, Simon Critchey, Thank you. Your confrance had impress me.

My purpose in reality is to die a philosopher, and reborn a god.

[victor1eremita]

Simon Critchley > Aubrey de Grey.

Long live death!

[jluxc]

It's seems to me that the sense in the group - is one of awe. However they lack a comparison of Jesus to Soc. Soc says he is a gadfly sent by God to bit the ass of Athens (the horse) and more would be coming. The greatest problem with the west is the lack of understand exactly what Jesus meant when he said to Peter: "Thou are me and I am you". In John Jesus is praying to the father for the final gadfly. NEVER does it promise life after death. Rather a way to travel to death while alive.-JC