Ethics of Hospitality by Daniel Innerarity

Author:Daniel Innerarity
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Marguerite Yourcenar gave a wonderful description of the obstinacy of elderly people that reflects every human resistance to brevity, and which becomes even more astute precisely in the presence of death:

For them, it is less a matter of keeping their treasure to the last (or their empire), from which their numbed fingers are already half-detached, than of avoiding too early entry into that posthumous state where one no longer has decisions to take, surprises to give, or threats or promises to make to the living. I pitied him; we were too different for him to find in me what most people who have wielded total authority seek desperately on their deathbeds, a docile successor pledged in advance to the same methods, and even to the same errors.

(2005)

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