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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: briskit who wrote (17441)5/10/2004 8:54:39 PM
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Glenn Hughes on "Tasting death: Becker meets Socrates"

an interesting piece /fragment :
faculty.washington.edu

Socrates called his consciousness of death, "practicing death" which was what he believed the true philosopher does. Since wisdom is the ever-deepening understanding of how to live a truly good life, no one can be a lover of wisdom except by continually dying to the perishable; i.e., letting the fact and possibilities of death penetrate the soul on a daily basis. But how do we know that a life lived morally is indeed eternal? The Socratic teaching requires the admission that we simply cannot know what comes after death. It is that mystery which must be embraced. For Socrates, hoping the soul has some kind of immortality is "a belief worth risking; a noble risk." The faith that this hope inspires leads the "death practitioner" to become a transcendent human being who lives consciously with the tension that is "in between" the perishing and the non-perishing dimensions of meaning he or she will discover in this practice. What Socrates meant by the idea of the in-between is that we consciously live in both dimensions of meaning, resolving the conflicts which arise between the two dimensions. Professor Hughes said it this way: "Conscious existence isn't just mortality plus an extraneous and grotesque dollop of intelligent awareness. It is a true union of opposites; it is participation in perishing and non-perishing reality simultaneously; it is the tension of living in-between perishing and non-perishing reality; it is 'life structured by death.'



this is interesting stuff ...I like that site , thanks for the Becker reminder Mike !

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