Abstract
This paper is about death and about immortality. It explores the experience and philosophical implications of death from different perspectives. Firstly, in the light of Mamardashvili’s philosophy, it deals with the interconnection and interdependence of death and thinking. Secondly, through Jankélévitch’s philosophy, it changes the perspective on the interdependence of death and thinking from the general to the personal perspective, when death becomes an intimate part of life. Further, thanks to Aries’ research, the paper introduces historical details about what people brooded over death and how they expressed their thoughts in more explicit way. This makes it possible to look at the mediology of death as a philosophy that leads to reflection and critique of our contemporary attitude to death. On the one hand, the mediology of death motivates us to think about death – in this way it follows the philosophical tradition, on the other hand, it attempts to convince us for the first time of the immortality that can happen only in material form – and it is its novelty.
Highlights
It is always an awkward task to introduce ideas and concepts that are born by the philosopher
The philosophy of mediation gives a new perspective on death because it draws attention to new technologies that change our patterns of death, and on the other hand is strongly connected with everything that people have on their mind about death
When mediology reminds us about the importance of thinking about death, the need of explanation appears there for us, because we don’t understand the necessity of it
Summary
It is always an awkward task to introduce ideas and concepts that are born by the philosopher. Transmission is based on knowledge, strict hierarchy, education, mutual respect, and mutual effort It is about conservation of ideas, about the traces, its salvage from annihilation and destruction in a changeable world:. The first one provides for thinking about death in general, the second one explains the necessity of thinking about our own death They can be united by the fact that Mamardashvili confirmed that he was acquainted with Jankélévitch’s philosophy and found it very close to his own one of his interviews. At the beginning of this I will write about the image of death from a historical point of view It is based on the detailed study of the French historian, Philippe Aries, whose work is significant for a better understanding of the approach towards death that is given by mediology. A nexus of meanings is more clearly presented for the reader
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