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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses. |
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| spelling | Life, death, & meaning : key philosophical readings on the big questions / edited by David Benatar. Life, death, and meaning 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010. 1 online resource (xii, 448 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. 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 anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses. Life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 Death. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036085 Death https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003643 Mort. deaths. aat PHILOSOPHY Movements Humanism. bisacsh Death fast Life fast Benatar, David. Print version: Life, death, & meaning. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010 9781442201699 (DLC) 2009029386 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1107080 Volltext |
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