Sfârşitul vieţii pământeşti a omului şi discernământul moral contemporan

Abstract

What is certain is that death is inevitable for man. By definition, man is mortal, and, from this point of view, he resembles any creature on Earth. Nevertheless, man is still human even when facing death, as he is aware, and therefore experiences this perspective. Man does not die as an animal, but tends to place this event in a universe coordinated by values and norms, where the very experience of death as humanity’s most dreaded problem can find its meaning. Death presented as an inexorable ending makes man ask himself questions about his own existence.