Today's excerpt comes from Bernard Williams' paper, Persons, Character, and Morality. Williams discusses why, if at all, we ought to fear death and what this means for our conception of ourselves.Join the conversation and share your insights at <a href="http://community.alifeofthought.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">community.alifeofthought.com</a>, or explore the annotations at <a href="http://alifeofthought.com/d15" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">alifeofthought.com/d15</a>.

Today's excerpt comes from Bernard Williams' paper, Persons, Character, and Morality. Williams discusses why, if at all, we ought to fear death and what this means for our conception of ourselves. Join the conversation and share your insights at community.alifeofthought.com, or explore the annotations at alifeofthought.com/d15.

Today's excerpt comes from Bernard Williams' paper, Persons, Character, and Morality. Williams discusses why, if at all, we ought to fear death and what this means for our conception of ourselves.Join the conversation and share your insights at&nbsp;<a href="http://community.alifeofthought.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">community.alifeofthought.com</a>, or explore the annotations at&nbsp;<a href="http://alifeofthought.com/d15" rel="noopener noreferrer">alifeofthought.com/d15</a>.

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A deep and thoughtful life is a life well lived. Explore philosophy, and think in the company of others. Our podcast is simple. Each episode, we 'zoom in' to two paragraphs from a philosophical work. It could be anything: From Plato, to Freud, to Homer, to Proust! Our goal is to give you the tools to think about the paragraph and ideas yourself, to de-ivory-tower-ify it, rather than provide a simple summary. Think of it like a morning mental workout. New episodes every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

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