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名詞

deathism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The belief that death is natural, inevitable, or desirable.
   • 1999, Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip, page 247:

     Religions may be the purest offspring of deathism. Most religions promise rewards in heaven or punishments in hell […]

   • 2010, Robert J. Pellegrini, Identities for Life and Death, page 248:

     There is no joy of any kind in what I describe as the deathism paradigm they follow, other than whatever feelings of effectiveness may be derived from killing the infidel and in fulfilling the personal death wish of religious martyrdom.

   • 2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

     For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.

関連する語

• deathist

参考

• thanatism