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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... individual as such and therefore there can be no question of immortality of the individual soul . Death is not , however , total annihilation because although death mows relentlessly , life continues unchanged . The death of the ...
... individual as such and therefore there can be no question of immortality of the individual soul . Death is not , however , total annihilation because although death mows relentlessly , life continues unchanged . The death of the ...
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... individual will be judged and he will go either to the bliss of the Garden or to the torment of the Fire . A verse ... individual immortality in the afterlife but transfers eternal survival from the individual to the group . This ...
... individual will be judged and he will go either to the bliss of the Garden or to the torment of the Fire . A verse ... individual immortality in the afterlife but transfers eternal survival from the individual to the group . This ...
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... individual ( centrifugal force ) and we have mentioned how they act with different intensities on different societies and individuals and how the changing proportions of the two forces are responsible for certain behaviors of the individual ...
... individual ( centrifugal force ) and we have mentioned how they act with different intensities on different societies and individuals and how the changing proportions of the two forces are responsible for certain behaviors of the individual ...
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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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abortion afterlife ancient animals 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 reaction reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Second Law Sheol soul span spirit suffering suicide survival terminally ill thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually Western Thought words York