Losing loved ones can be one of the hardest challenges a person must face. How do we navigate our loss, pain & grief? And what does death have to do with love? In this article, Sharon Krishek — lecturer in philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem — talks about the vital relationship between mortality and love as seen through the eyes of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Immortality is a common theme in circles of philosophical, theological, and others fields of thought…and for obvious reasons. When we lose the ones we love, its hard to let them go. When James Vlahos’ father was diagnosed with cancer, he wondered if there was a way to keep the essence…
Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interesting: Why do we humans so often resist the inevitability of death? Cave explores four (largely western) narratives that we tell ourselves in order to help us…
