Understanding death as life's paradox / Brayton Polka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polka, Brayton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paradox.

Life.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

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 dualistic opposition between philosophy and theology that continues today to falsify our understanding of not only the secular, but also the sacred.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One

Part I

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part II

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3392-1

OCLC:

1183030729