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My argument is, on the contrary, that any purpose of life depends on the prospect of death. This is not to say that death is the purpose of life. Death is not a purpose, not a completion or fulfillment of anything, but rather the irrevocable loss of life. The point, however, is that __nothing can be at stake in life—that no purpose can matter—without running the risk of death. Life can matter only in light of death__.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
To view policy as a branch of biology means that our proposed actions must be deeply informed by evolution.
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
At a time of global environmental threat, the athleticism of accomplishment has to be rejected for its utter dependence on the growth mentality that exploits our finite resources.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
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