DEATH AND IMMORTALITY IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. IMMORTALITY IN DEATH

Abstract

In this professional article, the antinomic conceptual doublet death-immortality is analyzed, the philosophical and spiritual experience that was inherited in connection with this tension in the rich cultural heritage of antiquity is presented. In this sense, a kind of panorama of different thought positions and practical attitudes is offered, from rational to imaginative to existential. The goal was to reach a deeper understanding of the borderline phenomena of human existence through a broader framework and pointing out the mediation links of different positions in relation to the challenging topic. Relying on the "descriptive method of working on the problem", the author tried to sharpen the image of the complex question and focus the reader's attention through the actualization of these questions in the latest times. The thematic ambivalence announced through the very title of the work directed further "comparative analyses" and creative syntheses. In this way, intertwinings and analogical correlations between significant philosophical writers, mythological editors and theological documentarians were followed. Anthropological differences, psychological variations and metaphysical deviations in relation to the unknown were pointed out. In several places in this writing, succinct thoughts and verses are quoted, with the intention of overshadowing the vanishing proximity of convergent research efforts. In the presented text, a bold attempt was also made to, following that timid trail, reach that common attitude and human standing before the opaque mirror of death. In the end, regardless of all the contradictions and disagreements in the interpretation of the limes of existence and the established fact that the opposing terms are dialectically connected on a deeper level, we came to the hedge of life, with which the tireless braid of love envelops us from century to century.