Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... ultimate possibility of renounc- ing age - old instinctual satisfactions for cultural developments that mitigate the fear of death and recapture the heroic vision from " creatureliness . " She has lived among the suffering Promotion and ...
... ultimate possibility of renounc- ing age - old instinctual satisfactions for cultural developments that mitigate the fear of death and recapture the heroic vision from " creatureliness . " She has lived among the suffering Promotion and ...
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... for the " good life . " He wrote the ultimate in self - containment in these classic - measured lines . But his self - containment differs from human self - possession . I strove with none , for none was worth my Guilt and Violence 175.
... for the " good life . " He wrote the ultimate in self - containment in these classic - measured lines . But his self - containment differs from human self - possession . I strove with none , for none was worth my Guilt and Violence 175.
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... ultimate concerns of all men : life's purpose ; and fulfillment in expanding immortality . Without being denominationally polemic , it expresses the cultural deposit of accumulated , but ever - expanding , Western liberal arts synthesis ...
... ultimate concerns of all men : life's purpose ; and fulfillment in expanding immortality . Without being denominationally polemic , it expresses the cultural deposit of accumulated , but ever - expanding , Western liberal arts synthesis ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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