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서명/저자사항 | Dying : what happens when we die? : a selection from Waking, dreaming, being : self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation and philosophy/ Evan Thompson. |
개인저자 | Thompson, Evan,author. Thompson, Evan. |
발행사항 | New York: Columbia University Press, [2014]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (85 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Thompson, Evan. Dying: What Happens When We Die? New York : Columbia University Press, ?014 |
ISBN | 9780231538954 0231538952 |
발행자번호 | EB00640375Recorded Books |
내용주기 | Cover ; Title Page; Copyright; Contents ; Dying: What Happens When We Die?; Notes. |
요약 | In the ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, the Lord of Death asks, “What is the most wondrous thing in the world?", and his son answers, “It is that all around us people can be dying and we don't believe it can happen to us." This refusal to face the inevitability of death is especially prevalent in modern Western societies. We look to science to tell us how things are but biomedicine and neuroscience divest death of any personal significance by presenting it as just the breakdown of the body and the cessation of consciousness. The Tibetan Buddhist perspective stands in sharp contrast to this mo. |
일반주제명 | Death, Apparent. Future life. Near-death experiences --Religious aspects. Consciousness. Self. PHILOSOPHY --Movements --Humanism. Consciousness. Death, Apparent. Future life. Near-death experiences --Religious aspects. Self. |
언어 | 영어 |
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