 Alexander explained there the reason why the natural order requires man to be morally virtuous in order that he becomes intellectually perfect. Once the sage is aware of the infinity of time and his individual finiteness, he has no fear, and moreover, once he knows that death afflicts him because of his bodily component, “ex necessitate materiae” (LC 2A) and that he is not going to be deprived of the intellectual perfection he has acquired, he has no fear of death, and some sages, like Socrates, have even preferred death to life because his country did not allow him to go the way of perfection.