Death /
There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of death.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
2012.
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| 丛编: | Open Yale courses series.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1npgh8 |
书本目录:
- Thinking about death
- Dualism vs. physicalism
- Arguments for the existence of the soul
- Descartes' argument
- Plato on the immortality of the soul
- Personal identity
- Choosing between the theories
- The nature of death
- Two surprising claims about death
- The badness of death
- Immortality
- The value of life
- Other aspects of death
- Living in the face of death
- Suicide
- Conclusion: an invitation.