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Nevertheless, since life becomes transparent only
against the background of death, and death against the
background of life, the bone-rattling vitality of the late
Middle Ages appears not devoid of some deeper wisdom.
What one did was to build up a philosophy according to
which a fictitious immortality became transparent
through a real mortal man as its temporary incarnation,
while mortal man became transparent through that new
fictitious immortality which, being man-made as
immortality always, was neither that of life eternal in
another world nor that of the godhead, but that of a very
terrestrial political institution.
The Roman jurists had also conceived an “objectivication”
of the ruler’s persona publica , and the Roman emperor is
sometimes called “a corporation sole.” But neither Greek nor