Life and Death


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1 The nature and cause of life, the soul as the principle of life in organic bodies.
2 Continuity or discontinuity between living and nonliving things, comparison of vital powers and activities with the potentialities and motions of inert bodies.
3 The modes or grades of corporeal life, the classification and order of the various vital powers or functions.
4 Continuity or discontinuity between plants and animals, comparison of plant and animal nutrition, respiration, growth, and reproduction.
5 The grades of animal life, types and degrees of mobility and sensitivity, analogies of structure and function.
6 The biological economy in ecological systems, the environment of the organism, the interdependence of plants and animals.
7 Normal vitality and its impairment by disease, degeneration, and enfeeblement with age.
8 The nature and causes of health, physical beauty.
9 The restorative function of rest or sleep.
10 The nature and causes of disease.
11 The life span and the life cycle.
12 The life span of plants and animals, and of different species of plants and animals.
13 The human life span.
14 The biological and psychological characteristics of the stages of life.
15 The causes and occurrence of death, the transition from life to death, homicide.
16 The concern of the living with life and death.
17 Reflections about life and death.
18 The love of life, the instinct of self-preservation, the life instinct.
19 The desire for death, the death instinct, the problem of suicide.
20 The fear of death, the attitude of the hero, the philosopher, the poet, the martyr.
21 The ceremonials of death, the rites of burial in war and peace.


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