耶鲁大学公开课读后感

The Yale university public class: death

Publicly in seen Stephen Cave "death" after class, I feeling very deep.

In TED speech "when are you going for the first time realized that he would die" as the beginning, through four stories to discuss how to deal with our fear of death. Death is inevitable, and openly discuss death may enable us to more rational in the face of this topic, so she opened the door, a professor of the course of death.If make a mind map, the middle one is death, spread out around each element is associated with death, including: "I", body, soul, and so on. Professor took many rhetorical question to discuss in detail each element associated with death, attempts to present a complete death. "I" as the main body of a is about to experience death, is the beginning will be discussed.

What is an entity, only know the character of people, can be classified according to the feature and one by one to discuss how to make its impact on death. Professor kagan flesh and soul dualism thought, but the final conclusion is that we cannot prove that dualism. Try all kinds of philosophical analysis, also cannot prove the existence of the soul. Looking at the Yale courses: death in the process of the video, I am surprised not professor kagan lecture way casual, but his quick thinking. Is often in a few short minutes, he constantly raise questions, every word yet on extremely.

Professor kagan mentioned a once his students in class, in the big moment was diagnosed with cancer, chose to complete Yale university education. The student chose kagan teach lessons about death, this led professor thinking, in the case of known and unknown death, what is the difference in the face of their own lives. Stephen Cave also mentioned, respectively to two groups of subjects (all are agnostic), a group of let them think about death, and the other a set of thinking alone, the experimental results, think about the death of the group will be more believe in Jesus. Discussion of life there are many, but professor focus is death itself. As the eternal life is negative, because of the death, life is full of meaning."The meaning of life is that it will eventually end. Although professor is not facing death is emphatically discussed how can we lead a more meaningful life, but this is the problem we have to think about. Because of death, the church we cherish the limited life, doing meaningful, meaningful things. Socrates died, but his thoughts exist forever.

Like Stephen Cave, when grandpa died, the first time I realized death. I think one day I will close my eyes and lie there, will have to call me indigoeyes my loved ones, there will be... ... I don't know at that time, whether can you have confirmed the existence of the soul, but death is not frightening. In the fear of death is more may face death in what way is not known. The professor in relate to the fear of death, put forward can form fear requires three conditions: risk of bad, bad things happen and bad things will happen. Rigorous logic makes people forget the fear, and into a meaningful thinking.

Man is but a little in the vast universe one of life on earth, is the substance of the universe is really of a special type of physical form. Only this kind of material life, the more advanced thought, has the same characteristics, human and other material production, destruction, conversion, etc. His meaning is reflected the universe material transformation and exist. He could not influence the root of the universe. And in the future to eliminate or

converted to other forms, humans also disappeared. (of course not rule out other animals similar to appear on the planet.)

Had thought the people face the clew of marginal of the universe and their tragic fate, very unwilling, trying to find their own survival meaning "great", to distinguish it from other substances other creatures. But if you are a sensible, speak the truth, had to admit that his will and other substances other biological similarities in nature, just thinking a little bit high, but it cannot jump out of the universe, this fact. So the proposition "why people live", if you want to in view of the universe, nature, can only be illusion. If you put this proposition is relative, not in view of the universe, but only for the survival of man himself (including "I") problem, this thesis would be sensible.

In my opinion, the death of our value is that let us realize that we do not die, if we have to live forever in this world, is not a boring thing!

I prefer the view that ZhouGuoping - think about death can make life more positive

"Think about death problem has two major benefits: let people live more active, more interested in life. Who dares to face death, can see the whole picture of life, to see the limits of life, life is limited. This not only can make people more active and enterprising, still can make people spend more."

In some ways, death is a part of life.If there is no death, people won't cherish the living time.If flowers never fade, there will be no when it blossom, so happy.Things always die, anything not eternal.Can deep understanding the meaning of death, is also very important for the living, think about death, at the same time, it is to think about the value and significance of life.

As college students, we should create more value in the life, service and people, and social services.

HANLIN