Abstract This article examines Sikh conceptualizations about death and immortality, focusing on several thematic lines of inquiry drawn from the utterances Gurus ( gurbāṇī ): (i) ordinary or empirical death; (ii) deathless states; (iii) after death? (iv) this life; (v) personhood (non-)existence God. These themes address philosophical issues related to concerns fear death, belief in an afterlif...

Rad se bavi različitim filozofijskim aspektima pojma slušanja u svezi s oblikovanjem i obustavljanjem totalitarnih zajednica. Tradicionalna filozofija uglavnom je kritički nastrojena prema čulnom znanju, dok suvremena misao usmjerava na slušanje kao značajan kompleksan fenomen koji može biti promatran kognitivna kategorija kroz različite filozofijske perspektive (politika, etika). Za Heideggera...

INTRODUCTION Breaking bad news may be affected not only by insufficient knowledge of a physician, but also by his attitude, religious beliefs, fears, lack of experience, etc. This survey was aimed to test the relation between physicians' fear of own death and philosophy of life and their inclination to break bad news. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred seventy students of the last year of medic...

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is the founding member of a cytokine family with important roles in both, physiology and pathological conditions. The two seemingly opposing cellular responses to stimulation by TNF itself are death and induction of pro-inflammatory signalling. TNF and other TNF superfamily (SF) members signal by crosslinking their cognate receptors. These form part of the TNF recep...

Abstract Growing empirical evidence has revealed the central role of death anxiety in numerous mental health conditions. Given this, there is a significant need for treatments which specifically address fears death. Whilst such have only recently been developed within clinical psychology, discipline philosophy long history offering valuable perspectives on may ameliorate this fear. In particula...