Awareness of Mortality

by Kauffman, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780895031747
• ISBN10: 0895031744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co

Table of Contents

Introduction
What Should We Expect From Philosophy?	p. 3
Dying and Death - Late in the Twentieth Century	p. 17
Immortality	p. 29
The Idea of "The Glorious Dead": The Conversion of a Uniquely Personal Experience	p. 39
Suffering and Death: Eternal Questions in a New Context	p. 51
Meaning and the Awareness of Death	p. 63
Blinkings: A Thanatocentric Theory of Consciousness	p. 75
Personal Identity and Death Concern - Philosophical and Developmental Perspectives	p. 91
The Awareness of Mortality in Midlife: Implications for Later Life	p. 111
Intimations of Mortality from Recollections of Early Childhood: Death Awareness, Knowledge, and the Unconscious	p. 121
Children, Death, and Fairy Tales	p. 153
Saying Good-Bye to Tomorrow	p. 171
Horrendous Death: Linking Thanatology and Public Health	p. 185
Death and Beyond: A Hindu's Perspective	p. 215
Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 229
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