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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION
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ONE: Death in Inorganic Nature
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1. Quaestio de nomine; 2. Some Preliminary Difficulties; 3.
Science and Philosophy: A Digression; 4. Some Theses on Inorganic Reality; 5. Elements and
Structures; 6. The Basic Elements; 7. Being "in Principle" and Being in Reality; 8. Reality and
Identity; 9. The Two "Directions"; 10. The External and the Internal; 11. Being and Meaning;
12. Conclusion
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TWO: Death in Organic Nature
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13. Matter and Organism; 14. Examination of Doctrines; 15.
The Nature of Organic Reality; 16. From Ceasing to Dying; 17. Death in Primary Organisms;
18. Death in Superior Organisms; 19. In Search of a Way Out
20. Man and His Body; 21. Biological Life and Human Life;
22. Being, Becoming, Existing; 23. Man as Selfhood and as Property; 24. The Definition of
Man; 25. A Budget of Paradoxes; 26. The Interiority of Death; 27. The Experience of Death;
28. Three Cases; 29. "Literary" Testimony; 30. The Attitudes Regarding Death; 31. The
Problem of One's Own Death; 32. The Essence of Human Death
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FOUR: Death, Survival, and
Immortality
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33. The Problem of Immortality; 34. The Primitives; 35. The
Ancients; 36. The Christians; 37. The Philosophers; 38. Rational Proofs; 39. Empirical Proofs;
40. Further Attempts; 41. Conclusion
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