Adam ŚwieżyńskiCorresponding authorORCID id

The Evolutionary Concept of Human Death

Article
13/1 - Spring 2008, pages 119-126
Date of online publication: 15 juin 2008
Date of publication: 01 juin 2008

Abstract

The natural sciences reveal the existence of a constant process of cosmic evolution, in which new forms of matter emerge. The continuity of the nonorganic and biological evolutionary processes, their assignment to the laws of nature, as well as the fact that the appearance of a human being constitutes their culmination, all this shows that a human being is an element of the material structure of the world. From the evolutionary point of view, it could be argued that a human being is “the ultimate form of life,” a very interesting but, in many respects, still very mysterious idea.

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Świeżyński, Adam. “The Evolutionary Concept of Human Death.” Forum Philosophicum 13, no. 1 (2008): 119–26. doi:10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.09.

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