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We can perhaps get a better idea [of this spiritual exercise] if we understand it as an attempt to liberate ourselves from a partial, passionate point of view - linked to the senses and the body - so as to rise to the universal, normative viewpoint of thought, submitting ourselves to the demands of the Logos and the norm of the Good. Training for death is training to die to one's *individuality and passions*, in order to look at things from the perspective of universality and objectivity.
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Philosophy as a Way of Life |
Spiritual Exercises |
The Ego |
The Ego |