Alexander White

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Think about the time before your birth. There was all that time that you didn't exist. Not just the weeks when you were in your mother's womb when you might have been born early, or even the point before you were conceived but were just a possibility for your parents, but rather the trillions of years before you came along. We don't usually worry about not existing for all those millennia before our birth. Why should anyone care about all that time that they didn't exist? But then, if that's true, why should we care so much about all those aeons of non-existence after death? Our thought is ...more
A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
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