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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Open Yale courses series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.