This paper examines death as an ethical category within theological and philosophical discourse. Drawing on John 12:25, where Jesus asserts that “he that loveth his life shall lose it,” I argue that life is framed as negation rather than affirmation. Jesus critiques attachment to worldly pleasures as illusory, a view echoed in Plato’s Phædo, where Socrates advocates detachment from bodily desires and lifelong preparation for death. Both figures employ “death talk” not as morbidity but as an ethical orientation: to (...) be fully human is to recognize mortality and live accordingly. I term this orientation funereal ethics, an imperative that redirects action away from solipsistic self-preservation toward communal responsibility. To make this claim, I analyze Umberto Eco, Huey P. Newton, Victor Anderson, and Frank B. Wilderson III, tracing how their work conceptualizes fascism, both political and existential, as a site for rethinking death and ethics. (shrink)

This article situates Omittoism—a philosophical framework of jurisdictional sovereignty—within contemporary analytic philosophy. The article critically engages the work of ten major philosophers—including Stephen Law, A. John Simmons, Christine Korsgaard, Michael Huemer, Elizabeth Anderson, James P. Sterba, Erik Wielenberg, Mark C. Murphy, Wes Morriston, and Graham Oppy—to demonstrate how Omittoism's central theses stand in convergent, divergent, and dialectically productive relationships with the contemporary landscape. Unlike the ontological (existence) or theodicial (goodness) axes, Omittoism asks whether any entity possesses legitimate authority (...) over rational agents without their consent. The paper argues that jurisdictional sovereignty is analytically independent of divine existence and develops the Cosmic Audit to evaluate divine governance by the standards of liberal political philosophy. (shrink)