Thinking clearly about death:
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Titel: Thinking clearly about death
Autor: Rosenberg, Jay F
Jahr: 1998
Contents
Preface to the First Edition xiii
Preface to the Second Edition xvi
Notes to the Preface xix
Prelude: Death as a Problem for Philosophy 1
Notes to the Prelude 4
0: Some Methodological Preliminaries 7
0.1 Analytic Method in Philosophy—Four Theses 7
0.2 A Motley of Modifiers 10
0.3 Things and "Things" 13
0.4 One Way of Talking Nonsense 16
0.5 A Truth about "Truth" 20
0.6 Retrospect—And What Next? 24
0.A Paraphrase Revisited: More About "Nominal Objects" 25
Notes to Chapter 0 27
1: "Life after Death"—In Search of the Question 30
1.1 About Why It Isn't Obvious 30
1.2 Some Other Silly Questions 32
1.3 The End of Life—An Edifying Tale 34
1.4 A Helpful Distinction—And a Sensible Question 35
1.5 Of Life and Death . . . And Other "Opposites" 37
1.6 What Dies and What We Bury—A Deceptive Idiom 41
1.7 Marking Time: Process, Event, and Instant 44
1.8 The "When" of Death 47
1.9 Changing the Subject—Why Death Isn't Sleep 48
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Contents
1.10 The Dualistic Pull
1.A On Questions about Questions: More about Method 51
Notes to Chapter 1 ^
2: Bodies and Souls, I—The Limits of Theorizing 56
2.1 A First Try—The'Having'Theory 56
2.2 Having a Soul—In a Manner of Speaking 58
2.3 A Second Try—The 'Team' Theory 61
2.4 . . . And Try Again 63
2.5 The Banal and the Special 66
2.6 Five Ways to Talk about Bodies 69
2.7 What's Striking about Death 74
2.8 A Very Bad Argument 76
2.9 Beyond "Common Sense" 78
2.10 Being and Doing—How We Resemble Automobiles 82
2.11 The Collapse of a Theory 86
2.12 . . . And an End to Theorizing 89
2.A About "Making Sense" 91
Notes to Chapter 2 93
3: Bodies and Souls, II—
The Limits of Imagination, Others 98
3.1 An Impassioned Objection 98
3.2 A Bit of Science Fiction 99
3.3 One Picture, Two Stories 100
3.4 A Lesson in Criminology 103
3.5 A Question of Identity 105
3.6 A Visit to the Cinema 109
3.7 Two Forms of Literary Unity 110
3.8 A Decisive Dilemma 113
3.9 "The Glue of Memory" 114
3.10 The Objector Answered 118
3.A Remarks on Some Further Pitfalls 121
Notes to Chapter 3 125
4: Bodies and Souls, IH—
The Limits of Imagination, Oneself 128
4.1 The Objector Not Silenced 128
4.2 More Science Fiction: A Medical Miracle 129
4.3 Why Complicity Matters 131
4.4 Of Persons and Personas 133
4.5 The "Personagraph"—How to Make a New Person 137
Contents xi
4.6 Body Transplants—The Limits of Plastic Surgery 139
4.7 The Triumph of Criminology 144
4.8 Closing the Question 146
4.A Personal Identity and the First Person 149
Notes to Chapter 4 152
Interlude: An Agenda for Further Discussion 154
5: Death and Personhood:
Conceptual Preliminaries 159
5.1 On the Nature of Life and Death 159
5.2 How to Recognize a Corpse 163
5.3 Some Different Kinds of Kinds 166
5.4 Licensed Drivers and Legal Citizens 168
5.5 Contra Aristotle 173
5.6 Human Beings, Rational Entities, and Persons 176
5.7 A Few Fine Points . 181
5.8 . . . And a Word about Death Certificates 185
5.A The Primacy of the Organism and the Other
End of Life 188
Notes to Chapter 5 191
6: Values and Rights: Moral Preliminaries 193
6.0 The Project and the Strategy 193
6.1 A Continuum of Competences 195
6.2 Four Kinds of Rights 197
6.3 A Phenomenology of Moral Practice 199
6.4 Two Kinds of Intrinsic Value 200
6.5 Why Life Itself Is Not a Value 203
6.A Our Implicit Moral Theory:
Some Misunderstandings 208
Notes to Chapter 6 212
7: "Mercy Killing": The Question of Taking Life 216
7.1 The Case of Alric 216
7.2 Facts Are Not the Problem 219
7.3 The Dispute Recast 221
7.4 . . . And the True Question Located 223
7.5 Two Kinds of Moral Disagreement 225
7.6 How the Balance Can Shift 228
7.A Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, and Abortion 230
Notes to Chapter 7 233
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Contents
8: "Letting Die": The Question of Prolonging Life 235
8.1 Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission 235
8.2 Prolonging Life Versus Sustaining life 237
8.3 In the Matter of Bartholomew 239
8.4 A Crucial Asymmetry 240
8.5 The Dim Echo of Prior Debates 243
8.6 The Morally Right and the Morally Better 246
8.7 On What's Wrong with "Rights" 249
8.8 Some Key Points about Rights Anyway 250
8.9 The Moral Asymmetry of "Mercy Killing" and
"Letting Die" 254
8.10 In Which We Enter the Jungle of the Theory
of Action 256
8.11 The Ultimate Irrelevance of a Fait Accompli 261
8.A The Case of the Drowned Cousins 266
Notes to Chapter 8 268
9: "Rational Suicide":
The Question of Abandoning Life 271
9.1 The Case of Darcy 271
9.2 Choices and Attitudes—A Preliminary Survey 273
9.3 The Case for Interfering—And the Case Against It 275
9.4 In Defense of Paternalism 278
9.5 Paternalism and Suicide—Pro and Con 283
9.6 Rationality—The Last Question 288
9.A Self-Deception and the Problematic of Rationality 293
Notes to Chapter 9 296
10: "Death in the First Person":
Expectations and Attitudes 299
10.1 "One's Own Death" 299
10.2 The "Dark Kingdom" of Death 301
10.3 On Imagining One's Own Death 305
10.4 Fear of Death and Fear of Dying 311
10.5 The Perils of Immortality 315
10.6 "Life toward Death" 319
10.7 Loose Ends—And Some Summing Up 325
10.A The "Aloneness" of Death 329
Notes to Chapter 10 331
Epilogue:
The Limits of Philosophical Understanding 335 |
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