Encyclopedia of Death and Dying    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 9 matches Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Author Message   Topic: Why do we seek moral absolutes? coberst Replies: 0 Views: 591 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:36 am   Subject: Why do we seek moral absolutes? Why do we seek moral absolutes? Let’s consider the moral argument that is often rendered to justify making abortion illegal. The argument goes something like this: murder (killing an innocent ...   Topic: We Fear the full Intensity of Life coberst Replies: 0 Views: 847 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:21 am   Subject: We Fear the full Intensity of Life Humans seek to be more than animals. We seek to be gods or at least propagate that level above animal and below God. That which promotes life is good that which promotes death is evil. “Evil lies ...   Topic: Death With Dignity coberst Replies: 3 Views: 3898 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:06 am   Subject: Death With Dignity I suspect that this issue of old age and dying will slowly force itself into the consciousness of our (USA) nation because it will become an economic problem of great force. I suspect that religio ...   Topic: Christianity has failed to… coberst Replies: 1 Views: 2983 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:29 pm   Subject: Christianity has failed to… Christianity has failed to… [b]I claim that the Christian religion has failed to teach empathy; one of the most important moral concepts we have.[/b] There are various definitions of empathy g ...   Topic: Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Person coberst Replies: 0 Views: 9805 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:04 am   Subject: Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Person Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Personhood Common sense or, as cognitive science labels it, folk theory informs us that “all things are a kind of thing”. All things have in c ...   Topic: Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality coberst Replies: 0 Views: 4515 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:14 am   Subject: Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality Empathy—the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it. I can be empathetic with my neighb ...   Topic: Critical Self-Consciousness coberst Replies: 0 Views: 4157 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:38 am   Subject: Critical Self-Consciousness Critical Self-Consciousness I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about, she said “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. I have decided that CT (Critical ...   Topic: Our success is killing us coberst Replies: 0 Views: 3465 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:00 am   Subject: Our success is killing us Our success is killing us [b]The aims of technology are achieved and our chances for survival are fatally diminished.[/b] The fault is not in our technology but in us. The fault lies within human ...   Topic: Creating purpose and intensity in life coberst Replies: 0 Views: 4773 Forum: Death and Dying   Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:21 am   Subject: Creating purpose and intensity in life Creating purpose and intensity in life I visited a cemetery once and remember this sentiment “She Lived Life with Intensity” engraved on a head stone. It has an appeal to most citizens but I suspe ...   Page 1 of 1 All times are GMT - 6 Hours Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group