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Psychoanalysis is not science. But very few things are science. Nor is Kant's ethics a science, but it is a high-level reflection about the human being in his relation with the world, as is Freud's reflection. What seems curious is the scarce insistence about the fact that Kantian ethics is not science, while everyone seems so preoccupied with stressing the non-scientificity of psychoanalysis.

— Julio Cabrera

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Regretting having to die should be structurally identical to regretting being born, because it is not in our power being born in a non-mortal way.

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