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Cargando... Death (The Art of Living) (edición 2014)por Todd May (Autor)
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The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures who die, and who know we are going to die? In answering these questions, May brings together two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact. May shows that if we are to live with death, we need to hold these two perspectives together. Their convergence yields both a beauty and a tragedy to our living that are inextricably entwined.Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and writers - ancient and modern - as well as his own experience, May puts forward a particular view of how we might think about and, more importantly, live our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, it is precisely the contingency of our lives that must be grasped and which must be folded into the hours or years that remain to each of us, so that we can live each moment as though it were at once a link to an uncertain future and yet perhaps the only link we have left. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Maybe it's because May was writing for young readers or readers only just coming to this subject matter for the first time. Regardless, it was hard to escape the feeling that May was avoiding the meat and depth of his subject in much the same way he suggests most people avoid facing the fact of their own future death. I could quibble and say that May sometimes jumps to conclusions not yet fully supported by his arguments, but really my disappointment lies with the way May takes what seems like a very long road to get to his main points without treading deeply enough to truly highlight the importance of those points or examine them in enough detail once there.
I have no doubt that these hesitations on my part would be put aside if I was ever lucky enough to have a conversation with May in which we could pause and dig more fully at the various junctions of his argument. Unfortunately a book does not allow that level of mutual investigation so that all I am left with is the argument as presented.
I am already well into May's book "A Significant Life" and am already finding it more engaging, so again I have to assume it was the format of this book and not May's thoughts which led to my general appraisal. (