"Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain"

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Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

— Luce Irigaray