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A Look At The Fact Of Death From The Window Of Etiology And Philosophy
Dr. Eyüp ERDOĞANa
aFelsefe Bölümü, Mersin Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, MERSİN
The questions asked by etiology and philosophy in order to investigate the fact of death and the answers they seek are different from each other because they look at the reality of death from different windows. Etiology investigates the reason of the death and how it happens whereas philosophy investigates the death itself.
When looking at the fact of death from the window of etiology, the principle of abundance of causes, which proposes that different causes can cause the same result or the same cause can cause diferent results in different times, the principle of causal order, which proposes that same causes cause same results, same results have the same causes, and relationship of cause and result, which supposes that the future would be just like the past, are not overlooked.
Philosophia, that is, philosophy, which is derived from phileo, which means I love, I follow, I look for in Greek and sophia, which means wisdom in Greek, means, as it is, the love of wisdom, or following the wisdom – is separated from etiology in terms of its method while it shares with it the aim of looking for wisdom. For this reason, it should be just natural to accept that different results are obtained when looking at the fact of death from the perspective of philosophy and etiology, respectively.
What are the beginning questions of etiologycal and philosophical investigations whose characteristics and methods differ dramatically from each other. Where in these investigations is the religion, which is yet another window to look at the fact of death.Keywords: Death, etioloji, philosophy, religionTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2006, 14:96-106
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