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Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1652" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/thinking-about-ones-birth-is-as-uncanny-as-thinking-of-death" target="_blank"><strong>Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death - aeon</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Many people feel anxious about the prospect of their death. Indeed, some philosophers have argued that death anxiety is universal and that this anxiety bounds and organises human existence. But do we also suffer from birth anxiety? Perhaps. After all, we are all beings that are born as well as beings that die.</p><p></p><p>Whereas philosophers have said a lot about our anxiety about death, they have said little about birth anxiety. This is part-and-parcel of the broader neglect of birth in the Western philosophical tradition. The guiding thought has been that ‘all men are mortal’ (‘men’ in the sense of ‘human beings’) rather than ‘all human beings are mortal <em>and</em> natal’.</p><p></p><p>Once we bear in mind that we are natal as well as mortal, we see some ways in which being born can also occasion anxiety.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1652, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/ideas/thinking-about-ones-birth-is-as-uncanny-as-thinking-of-death'][B]Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death - aeon[/B][/URL] Many people feel anxious about the prospect of their death. Indeed, some philosophers have argued that death anxiety is universal and that this anxiety bounds and organises human existence. But do we also suffer from birth anxiety? Perhaps. After all, we are all beings that are born as well as beings that die. Whereas philosophers have said a lot about our anxiety about death, they have said little about birth anxiety. This is part-and-parcel of the broader neglect of birth in the Western philosophical tradition. The guiding thought has been that ‘all men are mortal’ (‘men’ in the sense of ‘human beings’) rather than ‘all human beings are mortal [I]and[/I] natal’. Once we bear in mind that we are natal as well as mortal, we see some ways in which being born can also occasion anxiety. [/QUOTE]
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