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The concept of life is as common in daily usage as it is difficult to explain and the plurality of the contexts in which it is used are as ambiguous as the meanings it expresses. This is the reason the via negativa is the easiest approach to explaining the concept of life (i.e., by saying that life is not death or that life is the opposite of death).
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Life, General. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_335
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