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In The World as Will and Representation Schopenhauer writes:
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as θανά τoν μελέτη [preparation for death]. Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing (II, 463).
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Perrett, R.W. (1987). Introduction. In: Death and Immortality. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3529-7_1
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