Comments on: Richard G. Stern, Face to Face http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/01/richard-g-stern-face-to-face/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael PS http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/01/richard-g-stern-face-to-face/comment-page-1/#comment-89088 Michael PS Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:39:27 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=56628#comment-89088 It reminds me of the story of Diogenes that Cicero tells in the Tusuclan Disputations.

Diogenes ordered that he should be cast away without burial. Then his friends objected to him: “Like fodder for birds and beasts?” “No, in no way,” he responded, “Rather, place a little stick next to me, so that I may frighten them off.” They said, “How could you? For you will not be conscious.” And he concluded: “Therefore, how will being shredded by beasts harm me, if I will not be conscious?”

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