The Archaic Perception of Death —An Integrated Model

• Authors: Matsyna Andrey I.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Studies of ancient funerary rituals lead to the philosophical problem of the opposi-tion of life and death. Ancient cultural forms that remove this opposition are based on the specifically irrational and correlate with irrational ideas about the soul and its desti-nation after death. The modern rational mind eliminates these forms. Based on an ontologically balanced paradigmatic synthetic approach, considering the features of ontology and myth, a dynamic model of the archaic perception of death—metaphysics of overcoming—was formed. This integrated model most accurately reflects the pre-philosophical way of the transcendence of the being. The metaphysics of overcoming can be the core of the ancient ritual comprehension theory.

Keywords

EN

metaphysics of overcoming; thanatological concepts; funeral rites; death; initiation; return ontology

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 68-77

Contributors

author

Matsyna Andrey I.

• Chelyabinsk State University, Russia