Is death larger than life and does it annihilate life altogether? This is the basic question discussed in this essay, within a philosophical/existential context. The central argument is that the concept of death is problematic and, following Levinas, the author holds that death cannot lead to nothingness. This accords with the teaching of all religious traditions, which hold that there is life beyond death, and Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories about the immortality of the soul. In modernity, since the Enlightenment, God and religion have been placed in the margin or rejected in rational discourse. Consequently, the anthropocentric promethean view of man has been stressed and the reality of the limits placed on humans by death deemphasised or ignored. Yet, death remains at the centre of nature and human life, and its reality and threat become evident in the spread of a single virus. So, death always remains a mystery, relating to life and morality.

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在哲学/存在主义背景下对死亡的思考。

死亡比生命大吗？它会完全消灭生命吗？这是本文在哲学/存在主义背景下讨论的基本问题。中心论点是死亡的概念是有问题的，并且按照列维纳斯，作者认为死亡不能导致虚无。这与所有宗教传统的教义一致，这些传统认为有超越死亡的生命，以及柏拉图和亚里士多德关于灵魂不朽的理论。在现代性中，自启蒙运动以来，上帝和宗教在理性话语中被置于边缘或被拒绝。因此，以人类为中心的普罗米修斯人的观点被强调，而死亡对人类的限制的现实被淡化或忽视。然而，死亡仍然是自然和人类生活的中心，它的现实和威胁在单一病毒的传播中变得显而易见。所以，死亡永远是一个谜，关乎生命和道德。