RUH TANPA TUBUH, TUBUH TANPA RUH: KETERANGAN TENTANG MATI DI ANTARA UNIVERSALISME FILSAFATI DAN PARTIKULARISME ANTROPOLOGIS
ABSTRACT: Death can be
understood merely as a transition from one life to the next or simply as an end
of life. These two conceptions are established due to our lack in knowledge
about what will happen to us after we die. In order to make any sense, both
conceptions require an understanding of death (and also life) as individual
matter, that the only death (and life) I experienced is always my own.
Nevertheless, in the first conception death does not exterminate one’s self,
while in the second conception death exterminate one’s self. However,
nonexistence of any access to the first-person death experiences causes our
understanding about death is always constructed from third-person point of
view—in this case, live person’s point of view. As the result, we see that death
also brings ontological transformation regarding to one’s corporeal body and
identity. As endeavors to undertand what death is, there are tendencies to
bring these conceptualizations of death to such philosophical universalism or
anthropological particularism. This paper suggests that explanations about
death must explain this event without strictly take one of these tendencies.
Keywords: death, death as transition, death as
denouement, transformation of corporeal body, transformation of personal identity
Penulis: Muhammad Damm
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd110008
