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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... civilization had been flourishing in the valley of the Indus . We know relatively little about it because , at around that time , it was destroyed apparently by the Aryans , a primitive warlike Indo - European population coming from the ...
... civilization had been flourishing in the valley of the Indus . We know relatively little about it because , at around that time , it was destroyed apparently by the Aryans , a primitive warlike Indo - European population coming from the ...
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... civilization perhaps for millennia . History , however , teaches that countries and civilizations decay and die and a new position is needed in the rear : humanity . There is further dilution of individuality but further gains in terms ...
... civilization perhaps for millennia . History , however , teaches that countries and civilizations decay and die and a new position is needed in the rear : humanity . There is further dilution of individuality but further gains in terms ...
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... civilization ) . Consider , for example , Western Civilization . Being the direct heir of the Greco - Roman Civilization , it runs in an unbroken line from Homer to Vergil to Dante to Shakespeare to Goethe to more recent poets and from ...
... civilization ) . Consider , for example , Western Civilization . Being the direct heir of the Greco - Roman Civilization , it runs in an unbroken line from Homer to Vergil to Dante to Shakespeare to Goethe to more recent poets and from ...
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Man and death | 3 |
Death as a natural phenomenon | 37 |
Death and philosophy | 75 |
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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