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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... course , expensive .... The costlier and the more elaborate the ritual , the greater their power was thought to be . Therefore , the ritual had an element of magic , the external manipulation of forces of nature by way of symbolic ...
... course , expensive .... The costlier and the more elaborate the ritual , the greater their power was thought to be . Therefore , the ritual had an element of magic , the external manipulation of forces of nature by way of symbolic ...
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... course , if a negative determinant is prominent . In the case of second degree murder , if the fear of punishment is sufficiently strong it may prevent the action in cases when the positive determinants ( fury or fear ) are not totally ...
... course , if a negative determinant is prominent . In the case of second degree murder , if the fear of punishment is sufficiently strong it may prevent the action in cases when the positive determinants ( fury or fear ) are not totally ...
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... course , that the wild animal arrives at the conclusion that death is imminent by a process involving logic or deduction . The animal knows that it is so by the same instinctive process by which it knows that a certain noise in the ...
... course , that the wild animal arrives at the conclusion that death is imminent by a process involving logic or deduction . The animal knows that it is so by the same instinctive process by which it knows that a certain noise in the ...
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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 annihilation Atman Attitudes Toward Death become belief body Buddha Buddhism burial buried called caused century Christian Church committed concept concerning considered corpse course cremation crime D.J. Enright D.S. Brewer Davidson and W.M.S. dead Death and Existence death and immortality Death and Western death penalty deceased doctrine dying Elizabeth Kübler-Ross Ellis Davidson Erwin Panofsky eschatology eternal euthanasia evident example fact fear of death feeling Folklore of Ghosts funerary Herman Feifel hero Hinduism human Ibid immortality individual Jacques Choron John Langone John McManners Judaism killed living Macmillan Company man's maximum life span means Middle Ages mortal murder Old Testament pain patient person Philippe Ariès Philosophical Library Plinio Prioreschi primitive problem of death punishment Quoted reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Sheol soul spirit suffering suicide survival terminally ill thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually Western Thought York