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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... mortal , therefore Caius is mortal , " had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius , but certainly not as applied to himself . That Caius man in abstract mortal , was perfectly correct , but he was not Caius , not an abstract ...
... mortal , therefore Caius is mortal , " had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius , but certainly not as applied to himself . That Caius man in abstract mortal , was perfectly correct , but he was not Caius , not an abstract ...
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... mortal and that , necessarily , death meant total annihilation . With few exceptions , however , he did not question the existence of God and , often , the possibility of escaping annihilation was left open . In his famous Oration on ...
... mortal and that , necessarily , death meant total annihilation . With few exceptions , however , he did not question the existence of God and , often , the possibility of escaping annihilation was left open . In his famous Oration on ...
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... mortal , the contrary is to prevail . " Translation by Plinio Prioreschi . 22. Jacques Choron , Death and Western Thought , The Macmillan Company , New York , 1963 , p . 96 . 23. Pasquale Villari , The Life and Time of Niccolò ...
... mortal , the contrary is to prevail . " Translation by Plinio Prioreschi . 22. Jacques Choron , Death and Western Thought , The Macmillan Company , New York , 1963 , p . 96 . 23. Pasquale Villari , The Life and Time of Niccolò ...
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Man and death | 3 |
Death as a natural phenomenon | 37 |
Death and philosophy | 75 |
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