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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... person itself , but merely of our knowledge of it . If we do not perceive any further act of the person in question , then it may be that the existence of the person has ceased , since there is no possibility of concluding the existing ...
... person itself , but merely of our knowledge of it . If we do not perceive any further act of the person in question , then it may be that the existence of the person has ceased , since there is no possibility of concluding the existing ...
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... person had a tendency to spare him and to hide from him the gravity of his condition .... The first motivation for the lie was the desire to spare the sick person , to assume the burden of his ordeal . But this sentiment ... very ...
... person had a tendency to spare him and to hide from him the gravity of his condition .... The first motivation for the lie was the desire to spare the sick person , to assume the burden of his ordeal . But this sentiment ... very ...
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... person is twofold : concern with afterlife matters " I may go to hell , " " I have sins to expiate yet " - as well as with cessation of present earthly experiences . To check whether religious persons , perhaps , were being more honest ...
... person is twofold : concern with afterlife matters " I may go to hell , " " I have sins to expiate yet " - as well as with cessation of present earthly experiences . To check whether religious persons , perhaps , were being more honest ...
Inhalt
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