Understanding death as life's paradox

This book focuses on death as life's paradox in order to test, to put on trial, what it means for us human beings to exist. No one of us chooses to be born. Yet, having been born, we must choose to have been born, to live, to exist. To exist is to choose to exist. To choose to exist is to live...

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Main Author: Polka, Brayton 1936- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible / Death
B Death (Motif) / Literature
Further subjects:B Literature
B Bible
B Death
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Summary:This book focuses on death as life's paradox in order to test, to put on trial, what it means for us human beings to exist. No one of us chooses to be born. Yet, having been born, we must choose to have been born, to live, to exist. To exist is to choose to exist. To choose to exist is to live with our choices. This text argues that death is the limit of life, that we can live freely and lovingly, at once justly and compassionately, solely within the limit of death. It shows that we can develop a comprehensive conception of life, and also of death, solely insofar as we learn to overcome the du
ISBN:1527531813