Sleepers Awake
March, 2014
As a philosophy student, I often come across thinkers who try to make sense of their own mortality. Death is perhaps the central question that underlies both philosophy and religion. Cicero once said, "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." More broadly, perhaps simply to live is to prepare oneself to die. Many people have talked about death, but few have so poignantly expressed death's inescapability and ultimate acceptance quite like Donald Hall ("Buyi...
