Tag Archives: End-of-Life
In the Hall of Mourning, There are Many Mansions
In the Hall of Mourning, There are Many Mansions Elmer Sprague passed away in his sleep, April 19th, 11:20 a.m. On July 17th, 2018, a friend got in touch to tell me he’d been scheduled for the gravest kind of … Continue reading →
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Tagged argument with God, beauty of youth, Biblical characters, brain surgery, collegial friendship, collegiality, death, death and spirituality, death of Moses, doing what one says, End-of-Life, faithfulness, field of action, ghost in the machine, grownup life, heroic treatment, innocence, integrating thought and action, life aims, life and death, life lessons, meaning of death, meaning of life, medical experts, medical verdicts, midrash, mind and body, mind/body harmony, mind/body problem, original sin, philosophy as learning how to die, post-surgical report, put together life, relative innocence, reliability, Sarah as a bride, Socrates, the rough and the smooth, theological doctrines, through thick and thin, timely death, truth seeker, untimely death, wrongly accused, young David, young Joseph
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“Death”
“Death” In the 1787 painting by Jacques-Louis David, Socrates is about to drink the hemlock. That was the execution method to which he was condemned by an Athenian jury for the crime of asking too many philosophic questions. Cebes, one … Continue reading →
Posted in academe, art, culture, history of ideas, life and death struggle, philosophy, political, psychology, the examined life, the problematic of woman
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Tagged alienation, ancient philosophy, Athens, barbarians, Cebes, death, End-of-Life, fear, fear of death, Greece, Hellas, Jacques-Louis David, learning how to die, little deaths, nothingness, Socrates, soul, suffering, The Examined Life, the great equalizer, women and death
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