Death and Life
Author： Paul Fairfield
Publisher： Algora Publishing
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9780875861470
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781892941725
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781892941732
Subject： B84 Psychology
Keyword： 心理学
Language： ENG
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Death and Life
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"What peculiarity of human nature impels us to turn our backs resolutely not only on death, on the price we pay for every choice, and other unpleasant realities, but ultimately on life itself?"
As long as death remains a topic of abstract discussion, we are all philosophers. We speak with great detachment of death as an inevitability and certainty, of its mystery and our anticipation of a life beyond this life. Yet death leaves us, as Sigmund Freud observed, "shaken by the unexpected," as if somewhere in the inner recesses of our being we did not altogether believe in the reality of death-most especially our own. Leo Tolstoy pinpoints our difficulty in The Death of Ivan Ilych, when his character observes, "The syllogism...'Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,' had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself."Â