The lecture addressed the question whether there exists a conflict between the East Asian people with Enlightenment mentality or worldview from the perspective of attitudes toward life and death. The Chinese used to think that our lives are inseparable from our relatives and the ghosts of the ancestors during our life time and that we will join our ancestor group after death. This kind of attitude is fundamentally different from the Enlightenment rationalism, materialism and individualism. There are many more basic differences between the European and Chinese notions of life and death.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 43455074In his work D'Alembert's Dream Diderot develops his philosophy of life and death, according to which nothing in the universe is really born or dies, since birth, life, and decay are merely changes of form, and we have no reason whatsoever to ascribe more importance to one form over the others. Thus, in the universe, there is a tendency towards self-organization of living matter on ever higher levels, i.e. in yet entirely unknown and never-before-seen superorganisms, which live on after their presumed death in smaller entities they have split themselves into, or through them.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
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