Rejection of death

Author: Ernst Becker [USA]
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: The book is woven through with four threads:
First: The world is frightening.
Second: The basic motivation of human behavior is our biological needs, the need to control basic anxiety, and the need to reject the fear of death.
Third: Since the fear of death is so overwhelming, we scheme to keep it in a state of unconsciousness.
Fourth: The paradoxical endeavor of dividing evil by evil leads to paradoxical consequences, bringing more evil to the world. It is precisely these four threads that show the difference between the spiritual and the religious.