An integrated solution to reduce death anxiety based on the comparison of Yalom and Mulla Sadra solutions

Shaami Nezhad, Manouchehr; Atrak, Hosein; Jahed, Mohsen

doi:10.30465/cw.2023.45184.1987

An integrated solution to reduce death anxiety based on the comparison of Yalom and Mulla Sadra solutions

Document Type : Biannual Journal

Authors

Manouchehr Shaami Nezhad ¹

Hosein Atrak ²

mohsen jahed ³

¹ Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran (corresponding author):

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Theology and Thesophy, Faculty of Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran: jahed.mohsen@znu.ac.ir

https://doi.org/10.30465/cw.2023.45184.1987

Abstract

The issue of death is one of the most important issues of human existence and one of his existential concerns. From birth to death, humans always carry the anxiety of death with them. Many thinkers have proposed solutions to reduce death anxiety. Yalom and Mulla Sadra have also discussed the nature of death based on their foundations. Yalom considers death as a pure nothingness and based on a naturalistic approach presents some existential solutions like relying on human communication, creativity, and rippling. Mulla Sadra based on a supernaturalistic approach also considers death as an existentiale. By analyzing his philosophical foundations some solutions like having a transformational and procedural approach to death could be deduced from his philosophy for reducing the anxiety of death. In this research, the authors first compare the views of these two thinkers and then try to find an integrated solution to reducing death anxiety.

Keywords

Key words: death anxiety

rippling

primacy of existence

essential motion

Mulla Sadra

Yalom

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