Download The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life AudioBook Free
More than 100 years ago, the American philosopher William Adam wrote that the knowledge that people must die is "the worm at the primary" of the real human condition - a universally distributed dread that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art work we create to the damaging wars we wage. Using data accumulated from human things, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski show conclusively that the fear of fatality and the desire to transcend it encourage us to buy expensive vehicles, crave popularity, put our health in danger, and disguise our animal nature. Worries of fatality can also fast judges to dole out harsher punishments, make children react negatively to the people different from themselves, and inflame intolerance and violence. However the worm at the primary need not take in us. This audiobook also discloses how human beings attended to terms with fatality and learned to lead lives of courage, imagination, and compassion. It infuses our lives with order, balance, significance, and purpose, and these anchors enable us to operate moment to minute without becoming overcome by the knowledge of our ultimate fate.
