The Horizon of Reason

Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception

Tag: death

Torchwood

The first episode of Torchwood has finally aired on Australia television! This contemporary Doctor Who spin-off is more than just another way to cash in on the popular science fiction series. Torchwood is more violent and daring than the series that spawned it, but underneath the sex and violence the stories deal with philosophical issues, [...]

Post Mortem

Funerals are the oldest signs of human culture, some anthropologists even define the onset of culture by the fact whether the dead were buried or not.
Our fascination with and fear of death relates directly to our ability to think about the future. We are the only animal that seems to have the ability to ponder [...]

Death

During our lifetime we have to deal with crises. Some might loose a leg, but that doesn’t stop them from having a meaningful life. Some can go bankrupt, but most bounce back. A natural disaster wipes somebody’s house away and they build a new one. The one problem, however, that we can not fix is [...]