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Our stories : essays on life, death, and free will /
In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Meaning in Life and Death; 2. Why Is Death Bad?; 3. Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience; 4. Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity; 5. Earlier Birth and Later Death: Symmetry Through Thick and Thin; 6. Why Immortality Is Not So Bad; Appendix: Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction; 7. Epicureanism About Death and Immortality; 8. Stories; 9. Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative; 10. Stories and the Meaning of Life; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; TU; V; W; X; Y; Z.