Montaigne: Self, Doubt and Difference · Episode 2 of 3
Does thinking about death set us free, or keep us trapped by fear? Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson explore preparation for death, virtue and pleasure, education through judgement, and the attention to ordinary life and bodily limits that complicates Montaigne’s account of mortality.
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Michel de Montaigne, Essays: That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die (I.20); Of the Education of Children (I.26); Of Experience (III.13).
Numbering follows Screech and Frame; online editions sometimes differ. Use the essay titles to locate the readings.
Read the complete Cotton-Hazlitt translation free at Project Gutenberg.
Audio chapters
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- 0:00 Why Practise Dying At All
- 1:11 Premeditation Of Death As Freedom
- 6:26 Virtue Without Misery And Real Education
- 11:21 Judgement Over Rules Across A Life
- 14:10 Final Question And Next Steps
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