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The book includes examples of beauty flowing from embracing the melancholy, and offers advice for moving through loss, allowing pain to inform leadership, and reckoning with the inevitability of death. [9] Bittersweet is based on the premise that "light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired". [1]
At the core of Keane's book is the author's belief that history is a necessary key for understanding democracy in the present time. Keane's worldwide perspective is an important corrective to the (mainly Western) idea that democracy has one and only distinctive form; one type of model that can be brought as a gift to people with different attitudes and histories.
"Stoicism and death acceptance: integrating Stoic philosophy in cognitive behaviour therapy for death anxiety". Discover Psychology. 2 (1): 11. doi: 10.1007/s44202-022-00023-9. ISSN 2731-4537. Peltomäki, Isto Johannes (18 November 2023). "Meaningfulness, Death, and Suffering: Philosophy of Meaning in Life in the Light of Finitude". Human Arenas.
The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. [1] The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death. [2]
The sociology of death (sometimes known as sociology of death, dying and bereavement or death sociology) explores and examines the relationships between society and death. These relationships can include religious , cultural , philosophical , family , to behavioural insights among many others. [ 1 ]
Ariès maintains that survivors no longer accepted the death of friends and loved ones. He states that people of this period lamented that death was a complete rupture from life and were consoled by preserving the memory of the deceased. Memorializing the dead became an important feature of the period of "thy death". [13]
The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death. This is a very broad topic that has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those of art , biology , literature , philosophy ...
Nihilism thus defined is therefore not the denial of higher values, or the denial of meaning, but rather the depreciation of life in the name of such higher values or meaning. Deleuze therefore (with, he claims, Nietzsche) says that Christianity and Platonism , and with them the whole of metaphysics, are intrinsically Nihilist.