[lit-ideas] Re: The meaning of life

I am so much older now, my mind is weaker and memory more feeble. But surely
this must be the Omar of old times on Phil-Lit. Who else would offer a
quotation from one of Kant's favourite drinking buddies and moral confreres? I
echo Robert's sentiment wholeheartedly: Welcome back, Omar!

May the community in this pub provide you with captivating philosophical
reflection for the mind, some occasional comic relief from your trials and
tribulations, and soothing balm for the heart and soul of a lover of truth and
rightness. 

Walter O


Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Only tangentially related to the recent threads, but still:
>  
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/
>  
> There are references to Kant and others, but this quote struck me:
> 
> When a man's circumstances contain a preponderance of things in accordance
> with nature, it is appropriate for him to remain alive; when he possesses or
> sees in prospect a majority of the contrary things, it is appropriate for him
> to depart from life…. Even for the foolish, who are also miserable, it is
> appropriate for them to remain alive if they possess a predominance of those
> things which we pronounce to be in accordance with nature. (Cicero, III,
> 60–61)
>  
>  
> 
> 
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