{"date":"September 23","id":"09-23","intro":["The Romans made an art of dying. The Egyptians looked on death with complacency. Moderns fear it. Montaigne argues that the purpose of philosophy is to teach men how to die."],"minutes":27,"readings":[{"author":"Michel de Montaigne","end":22,"start":9,"volume":32,"work":"To Learn How to Die"}],"slug":"september-23","status":"proofread","title":"Dying Concerns Every Man","url":"/harvard-classics/september-23/","words":5379}