Embodiment and the meaning of life /

The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noonan, Jeff (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Life.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Suffering.
Death.
Finite, The.
Human body (Philosophy)
Death
Life
Vie > Philosophie.
Fini.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Signification (Philosophie)
Souffrance.
Mort.
deaths.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Do suffering and death prove that life Is not worth living?
  • If life Is worth living, is it worth living forever?
  • Time as extrinsic limit and matrix of freedom
  • Frames of finitude and non-alienated labour I: dependence, disease, and old age
  • Frames of finitude and non-alienated labour II: relationships, life-projects, and risk
  • Death and the ethical wholeness of life.

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