[PDF] Morality Not Mortality eBook

Author : Uriel Abulof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316368750

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Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.

Author : William Horst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 166690029X

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This study argues that the language of “death” as a present human plight in Romans 5–8 is best understood against the background of Hellenistic moral-psychological discourse, in which “death” refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person’s rational will is dominated by passions associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a cosmic power called “Death,” that entered the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve in Eden. Moral death was imposed on humanity as a judgment against this initial transgression, in order to increase sinful behavior, which ultimately serves to increase the magnitude of the glorious revelation of God’s grace through Jesus Christ. Likewise, creation’s subjection to “corruption” and “futility” in Romans 8 involves the detrimental effects of human moral corruption, not the physical corruption of death and decay. Ultimately, the plight on which Paul focuses much of his attention throughout Rom 5–8 is a matter of morality, not mortality.

Author : William Horst
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Bible
ISBN :

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This study arues that the language of "death" as human plight in Rom 5-8 is best understood against the background of Platonic moral-psychological discourse, in which "death" refers to a state of moral bondage in wich a person's rational faculty is dominated by irrational passions and appetites associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or "cosmic power" called "death," that "entered the world" through Adam's transgressions in Eden (Rom 5:12). Moral death was imposed on humanity as judgement against Adam's sin, in order to increase sinful behavior, which ultimately serves to increase the magnitude of the glorious revelation of God's grace through Jesus Christ. This study begins by tracing traditions of moral-psychological discourse, largely rooted in the wrtings of Plato, which shape Hellenistic philosophical writings, as well as a number of Helenistic Jewish writings, which are broadly relevant to understanding Paul's milieu. It then identifies a number of parallels between Paul's words about sin and death in Rom 6:1-8:3 and this Helenistic tradition of moral discourse. It further argues that the inception of death and sin through Adam in Rom 5:12-21 should likewise be understood in terms of the inception of moral death, which is a divine judgement against sin that ultimately serves God's purposes in the glorious reveaton grace through Christ. It then offers interpretations of several passages that have often been understod in reference to the inception of mortality through Eden, but which can better be understood in reference to the inception of mortality through Eden, but which can be better understood in a manner more in line with the themes of this study (Rom 1:23, 3:23, 8:19-23). Ultimately, the human plight on which Paul focuses much of his attention throughout Rom 5-8 is a matter or morality, not mortality.

Author : Wesley J. Smith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 145877841X

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When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in his groundbreaking new book, The Culture of Death. Smith believes that American medicine ''is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenseless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die.'' Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how ''bioethicists'' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate, yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made ''the new thanatology'' his consuming interest.

Author : Corey Anton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1683932854

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How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. A heady multidisciplinary work, How Non-being Haunts Being explores how absence, incompleteness, and negation saturate life, language, thought, and culture. It details how meaning and moral agency depend upon forms of non-being, and it argues that death acceptance in no way inevitably slides into nihilism. Thoroughgoing death acceptance, in fact, opens opportunities for deeper levels of self-understanding and for greater compassion regarding our common fate. Sure to provoke thought and to stimulate much conversation, it offers countless insights into the human condition.

Author : Lloyd Steffen
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451487576

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In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.

Author : Leslie Jenal
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2017-07-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781546666141

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The premise of Not the Worst Thing: Life and Death in Clinical Ethics is that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. Rather, the inappropriate overuse of life-sustaining medical treatments and technologies impair the dignity of the dying patient. Not the Worst Thing covers issues such as quality of life, informed choice and consent, the persistent vegetative state, artificial nutrition and hydration, palliative sedation, pain management, futile treatment, healthcare costs, and physician-assisted suicide. An instructor's guide is available.

Author : F. M. Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198024010

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Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? Kamm begins by considering these questions, critically examining some answers other philosophers have given. She explores in detail suggestions based on our greater concern over the loss of future versus past goods and those based on the insult to persons which death involves. In the second part, Kamm deals with the question, "Whom should we save from death if we cannot save everyone?" She considers whether and when the numbers of lives we can save matter in our choice, and whether the extra good we achieve if we save some lives rather than others should play a role in deciding whom to save. Issues such as fairness, solidarity, the role of random decision procedures, and the relation between subjective and objective points of view are discussed, with an eye to properly incorporating these into a nonconsequentialist ethical theory. In conclusion, the book examines specifically what differences between persons are relevant to the distribution of any scarce resource, discussing for example, the distribution (and acquisition) of bodily organs for transplantation. Kamm provides criticism of some current procedures for distribution and acquisition of a scarce resource and makes suggestions for alternatives.

Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1996-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810112868

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Hans Jonas, a pupil of Heidegger and a colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, was one of the most prominent phenomenologists of his generation. This carefully chosen anthology of Jonas's shorter writings - on topics from Jewish philosophy to philosophy of religion to philosophy of biology and social philosophy - reveals their range without obscuring their central unifying thread: that as living, biological beings, we are also beings who die, and who must consider the implications for current and future ethical and social relations.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780312144012

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In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.