Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essentia…
by O'Byrne, Anne E., (Anne Elizabeth)
fromStudies in Continental thought
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by O'Byrne, Anne E., (Anne Elizabeth)
fromStudies in Continental thought
by O'Byrne, Anne E., (Anne Elizabeth)
fromStudies in Continental thought
The author focuses on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, she discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance,…
by O'Byrne, Anne E., (Anne Elizabeth)
fromStudies in Continental thought
Reorienting our approach to fundamental questions about human existence.
All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality-and comparatively little has been said about being born and how it shapes our…
Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Philosophers have written much about death, but neglected birth. Stone brings natality into philoso…