Tag: death
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Coronavirus. Human arrogance. Death.
Just before the coronavirus outbreak in China, we all were reading great articles and scientific announcements about how science will soon beat even death and make us immortal... Now we know that the giant we believed in had legs of clay. Now we are collectively trying to survive from a virus in the midst of…
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Italy, coronavirus, saving the younger ones: Civilization dying.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is reported that in Italy there is a shortage in medical supplies and doctors are now making choices about who to save and who to leave unattended to die. There are reports that the selection doctors make are in favor of the younger ones. (Source) If this…
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Coronavirus, Christianity, Death, "sissies"...
There is a lot of discussion about the new coronavirus affecting the world as we speak. Harmonia Philosophica usually does not deal with such news since our focus is philosophy and not everyday matters. Our subject is the eternal, not the ephemeral. And yet, as we have said many times here, the ephemeral is sometimes…
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Against Abortions - Summary of arguments
Modern civilization is the civilization of "rights". And this entails the non-existence of any "obligations". The abortions case is the best example illustrating such a way of thinking. Abortions are seen today as a "human right". Never before had anything so dark been painted with so glorious colors. Never before had such an unethical action…
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Noli timere...
Someone once said that all magnificent things are terrifying. If that is true then death must be glorious. And yet, we are all afraid of it. Those last words that will never get off your mind... Those last moments you never knew were the last... The anguish of the lost loved one you can never…
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