Will turns to the Ancient Greeks to find some help navigating the uncomfortable experience of repetition.
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What do we learn from George Yancy, his interlocutors, and, hopefully, my online class? We learn that philosophy matters more dearly than we could possibly expect and that its efficacy stretches from the realm of the abstract to the skin wrapped round our flesh, to the blood that courses through our veins.
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In order to live and thrive while grieving for the deaths of my son, father, stepfather, and friends, I have to reckon with death: How do these people’s deaths affect my ability to navigate through the social world? How do their deaths change my relation to life, generally? Is death really an end, or is it more like a threshold that opens onto a new beginning? By asking these philosophical questions, I feel that I am arranging the deaths of my family members into an order, one that acts like a trail capable of leading me in a specific direction.
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