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Life, death, & meaning : key philosophical readings on the big questions /
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: The meaning of life. The meaning of life / Richard Taylor ; The absurd / Thomas Nagel ; "Nothing matters" / Richard Hare ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / W.D. Joske ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / Robert Nozick ; The meanings of life / David Schmidtz
- Part II: Creating people. Whether causing someone to exist can benefit this person / Derek Parfit ; Why not let life become extinct? / John Leslie ; On becoming extinct / James Lenman ; Why it is better never to come into existence / Devid Benatar
- Part III: Death. How to be dead and not care : a defense of Epicurus / Stephen E. Rosenbaum ; The misfortunes of the dead / George Pitcher ; Annihilation / Steven Luper ; Some puzzles about the evil of death / Fred Feldman ; Pre-vital and post-mortem non-existence / Frederik Kaufman ; Why death is not bad for the one who died / David B. Suits
- Part IV: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume ; Suicide and duty ; Immanuel Kant ; Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar
- Part V: Immortality. Immortality : a letter / James Lenman ; The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams ; Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer ; "From here to eternity" : is it good to live forever? / Christine Overall
- Part VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden ; The consolations of optimism / Michaelis Michael and Peter Caldwell ; The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller ; On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer.