{"id":5420,"date":"2017-06-17T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/thinking-concretely-about-death\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:09:29","slug":"thinking-concretely-about-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/thinking-concretely-about-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Concretely About Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">When my death seems &#39;acceptable,&#39; a &#39;natural&#39; occurrence, I wonder whether I am thinking about it concretely and honestly enough. &#0160;&#0160; I wonder whether I am really confronting my own utter destruction <em>as a subject<\/em> for whom there is a world, as opposed to myself <em>as an object<\/em> in the world.&#0160; If I view myself as object, I can &#39;hold myself in reserve&#39;&#0160; and imagine that I as subject will somehow survive destruction.&#0160; I can think of death as a drastic transition rather than as annihilation &#8212; which it may well be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">If you say it is certain that death is annihilation, then I pronounce you a dogmatic fool.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/07\/-death-penalty-abortion-and-certainty.html\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/353969010_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/07\/-death-penalty-abortion-and-certainty.html\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Death Penalty, Abortion, and Certainty<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my death seems &#39;acceptable,&#39; a &#39;natural&#39; occurrence, I wonder whether I am thinking about it concretely and honestly enough. &#0160;&#0160; I wonder whether I am really confronting my own utter destruction as a subject for whom there is a world, as opposed to myself as an object in the world.&#0160; If I view myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/thinking-concretely-about-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking Concretely About Death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,184,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-death-and-immortality","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}