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Sandrvake: We saw that aristotle's disciple, alexander ushered in a period of turmoil and cultural anxiety. They diagnosed the anxiety as being caused by an anxiety about one's own mortality. And then we learned how the epicureans responded to this,. How they diagnosed the problem like a physician and prescribed a response. It's not about experiencing total loss; it's about experiencing partial loss.

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