Death’s Horizon as the Foundation of Eros
Philosophical Meditations on Grief and Vitalism
Abstract
In the present paper, we will attempt to navigate the experience of grief philosophically, with the aim of developing a vitalism from it. Rather than viewing death as an interruption, denial, or annulment of love, we propose interpreting it as the basis for love to permeate and constitute us in a more intense, profound, and transformative manner. Understanding death as the tragic awareness of our finitude provides the necessary wisdom to live and love differently. With the help of several philosophers, we will explore the tension between love and death as a reciprocal resonance, not an antagonism. We will examine Eros not as a promise of eternity but as an impulse that finds its immanent meaning in the finitude of the other, as in one's own.
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