Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy /

"This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism, and analytic philosophy. He also e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schumacher, Bernard N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Death.
Philosophy.
Death
Philosophy
Mort.
Philosophie.
deaths.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
mort > nature (philosophie) > 19e s. > 21e s. (début)
mortalité > 19e s. > 21e s. (début)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Biological death
  • 3. So-called 'personal death'
  • 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death
  • 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death
  • 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality
  • 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death
  • 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge"
  • 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other
  • 13. Death as the object of experience
  • Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us": 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers
  • 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject
  • 16. Death: an evil of privation
  • Conclusion.

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