Resumen:
For Eugenio d'Ors, life is not defined by its relation to death, but as a creative principle of forms that affirms itself. In contrast, death is defined as that which is most opposed to life, a principle of destruction and negation, fatality and resistence. In this way a dialectical relationship is established between both principles, an antagonist tension which makes life a permanent fight against death. For that reason d'Ors' approach to death has an ethical and combative sense, stressing the need to live on alert.