The article deals with Asian notions of life, death, impermanence and universal love, and their difference to the European tradition. By analyzing the Mohist theories of Heaven, it evokes the notions of transcendence, which are described in the texts as the state of undifferentiated consciousness. Since the language is rooted in the differences, here the void space comes into play, as well as the mystical and meditative methods developed in Asian philosophical and religious traditions which might be necessary for a mature acceptance of impermanence and death, and for a full life based on it.
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The chapter compares two attitudes towards one's own death and death of the world. Initially a perspective of the 18th century French metaphysical egoist thinker is outlined. The latter believes that his own death entails the annihilation of the world and people in it. For him, they exist merely in his own mind. The chapter then addresses Louis Althusser's "suicide" as it can be reconstructed on the basis of his posthumously puiblished autobiography. The latter seems to have believed that due to his existence in the minds of the others', his own death inevitably followed their extinction.
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