It’s Kim’s son writing here, just wanting to let people know that sadly Kim passed away on May 19th, having been in palliative care in the company of her family and friends since mid-April. From the experience of being around her in the final months of her life, I can maintain that having this outlet [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Death’
March 3, 2007
Infinity and finity
Talking to my son about his philosophy course, he mentioned to me how philosophers can be divided into ‘infinitists’ and ‘finitists’. Finitists, such as Nietzche, see the ultimate realisation of freedom in the realisation, awareness of, and acceptance of death as making a finite boundary to life. Otherwise one is left with the infinite, and [...]
