The Development of religions in ancient civilizations in relation to the fear of death

Religion played a major role and had a great portion of interest and involvement in the daily life of ancient cilvilizations alike. Infact, many aspects of life such as the night and day cycle, floods, wars, birth and death were important factors that created the feeling of superpowers which controlled the life of ancient civilizations. Death, was one of the greatest fears among all of them and the search for IMMORTALITY developed the humankind's thought …

…is not certain that he did not understand this nous, in a pantheistic sense. It is, however, in his Ethics that Aristotle is most disappointing on this subject. For obviously, the question of the reality of a future life is of the first importance in any complete philosophical treatment of morality, whilst Aristotle in this treatise practically ignores the problem. His attitude here proves how much all modern ethical philosophy owes to the Christian Revelation.