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Peter Kreeft: Where Do We Go From Here? A Philosopher's Thoughts on Eternity

Socrates in the City

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Sigmund Freud and Dylan Thomas: A Comparison

Sigmund Freud wants to relieve as much suffering as possible. But with regard to death, he says we must make friends with the necessity of dying. He's a stoic. It's inevitable, so here's your choice. You can either die in rebellion or you can die without rebellion. And yet, when we read Dylan Thomas, the romantic poet, the praise of something other than rationality. We never beat death, just like we never beat the Yankees, but it's noble to fight anyway. Well I suggest that there are deeper faces of death, but unless you go through the first one, death is an enemy,.You're not totally honest.

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