Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... dignity beneath the headsman's keen axe . But with More all depended on the will of his most mercurial friend , Henry VIII , now fuming at what seemed to him More's sheer obstinacy over an intransigent point of law . ( Do you recall ...
... dignity beneath the headsman's keen axe . But with More all depended on the will of his most mercurial friend , Henry VIII , now fuming at what seemed to him More's sheer obstinacy over an intransigent point of law . ( Do you recall ...
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... dignity is plainer . The tyranny of Creon in refusing natural burial to the remains of the dead Polynices precipitates the tragedy in Antigone . The single exception of the aboriginal Ik tribe's taunting of their weak and dead members ...
... dignity is plainer . The tyranny of Creon in refusing natural burial to the remains of the dead Polynices precipitates the tragedy in Antigone . The single exception of the aboriginal Ik tribe's taunting of their weak and dead members ...
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... dignity and betray no copains under inhuman torture the code of Résistance Fighters and others since . The intent is not to reject life but to preserve its dignity and the lives of others . In this connection it is significant , I think ...
... dignity and betray no copains under inhuman torture the code of Résistance Fighters and others since . The intent is not to reject life but to preserve its dignity and the lives of others . In this connection it is significant , I think ...
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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