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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

13173	Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Death is nothing but the contraction of an animal, just as generation is nothing but its unfolding.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Johann Bernoulli [1699], 1698.11.18)
	A reaction: This is possibly the most bizarre view that I have found in Leibniz. He seemed to thing that if you burnt an animal on a bonfire, some little atom of life would remain among the ashes. I can't see why he would believe such a thing.