A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and EthicsE. Mellen Press, 1990 - 508 Seiten This study examines death and its impact on human thinking from a biological and historical viewpoint. It finds that fear of death is the motive behind the human need to accomplish anything. It also discusses care of the terminally ill, mercy killing, suicide, and the death penalty. |
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... dead ; some of the dead may have good reason to take revenge . Because of their capacity to harm the living it was necessary to propitiate them and , at the same time , to render them powerless . In Upper Paleolithic Europe , for ...
... dead ; some of the dead may have good reason to take revenge . Because of their capacity to harm the living it was necessary to propitiate them and , at the same time , to render them powerless . In Upper Paleolithic Europe , for ...
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... dead within the village , in classical antiquity the dead were buried far from the living quarters because the cadaver was considered unclean . From the pagan point of view a dead body was an abomination abhorred by the very gods - in ...
... dead within the village , in classical antiquity the dead were buried far from the living quarters because the cadaver was considered unclean . From the pagan point of view a dead body was an abomination abhorred by the very gods - in ...
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... Dead birds have been depicted in art previously but in a different contest . They appeared in still lifes and thus were a part of the world of man for whom they served as food . One is not even aware of the fact that they are dead ...
... Dead birds have been depicted in art previously but in a different contest . They appeared in still lifes and thus were a part of the world of man for whom they served as food . One is not even aware of the fact that they are dead ...
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Man and death | 3 |
b The necessity of death The Second | 11 |
c The impossibility of death | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
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abortion afterlife ancient animals annihilation Atman Attitudes Toward Death become belief body brain death Buddha Buddhism burial buried called cause century Christian Church committed concept concerning considered continue corpse course cremation crime D.J. Enright D.S. Brewer Davidson and W.M.S. dead Death and Existence Death and Western death penalty deceased disease doctrine dying Elizabeth Kübler-Ross energy entropy Erwin Panofsky eschatology eternal euthanasia evident example fact fear of death feeling Folklore of Ghosts funerary Herman Feifel Hinduism human Ibid individual Jacques Choron John McManners Judaism killed living Macmillan Company man's maximum life span means Middle Ages mortal murder nature Oxford pain patient person Philippe Ariès Philosophical Library Plinio Prioreschi primitive problem of death punishment Quoted reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Second Law Sheol soul span spirit suffering suicide survival thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually W.M.S. Russell Western Thought words York