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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... fear of death ( in this case of the afterdeath ) that made people buy without protest , from the rapacious clergy , forgiveness for the family member who was the unfortunate victim of sudden death . As for the fear of one's own decay ...
... fear of death ( in this case of the afterdeath ) that made people buy without protest , from the rapacious clergy , forgiveness for the family member who was the unfortunate victim of sudden death . As for the fear of one's own decay ...
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... death . Another kind of fear of death , as we have said , is the fear of the event itself : Thus Philippus Paracelsus , the great Swiss physician of the sixteenth century , said that " not death is the torture , but torture is where death ...
... death . Another kind of fear of death , as we have said , is the fear of the event itself : Thus Philippus Paracelsus , the great Swiss physician of the sixteenth century , said that " not death is the torture , but torture is where death ...
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... fear of death : death cannot inspire fear because as long as we are , it is not , and when it is , we are not . Therefore , so the argument goes , we shall never " meet " death and the fear of it is the fear of the lack of individual ...
... fear of death : death cannot inspire fear because as long as we are , it is not , and when it is , we are not . Therefore , so the argument goes , we shall never " meet " death and the fear of it is the fear of the lack of individual ...
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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