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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... fact the Greeks feared death like everybody else : Schelling speaks of the " sorrow over the unconquerable finitude of existence " which permeates like a " sweet poison " the works of art of the Greeks . Erwin Rohde says that nothing ...
... fact the Greeks feared death like everybody else : Schelling speaks of the " sorrow over the unconquerable finitude of existence " which permeates like a " sweet poison " the works of art of the Greeks . Erwin Rohde says that nothing ...
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... fact , reversed the positions of life and death : it made life everlasting and death temporary . The fear of death , however , is very deeply imbedded into man and doubt could not fail to creep into the mind even of the most devout ...
... fact , reversed the positions of life and death : it made life everlasting and death temporary . The fear of death , however , is very deeply imbedded into man and doubt could not fail to creep into the mind even of the most devout ...
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... fact that the Christian system of thought as such not only minimized the fear of death but also the fear of the dead . The " dead which die in the Lord " were no longer considered " impure , " every one of them was an Anointed and , in ...
... fact that the Christian system of thought as such not only minimized the fear of death but also the fear of the dead . The " dead which die in the Lord " were no longer considered " impure , " every one of them was an Anointed and , in ...
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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