Life, Death, and Meaning - Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

Informationen zum Autor Bruce N. Waller is retired professor of philosophy at Youngstown State University. Samantha Vice is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. Klappentext Life, Death, and Meaning is designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy. Zusammenfassung Life! Death! and Meaning is designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 THE MEANING OF LIFE Richard Taylor, The Meaning of Life Thomas Nagel, The Absurd Richard Hare, 'Nothing Matters' W.D. Joske, Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Robert Nozick, Philosophy and the Meaning of Life David Schmidtz, The Meanings of Life Susan Wolf, The Meanings of Lives Chapter 2 CREATING PEOPLE Derek Parfit, Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person John Leslie, Why Not Let Life Become Extinct? James Lenman, On Becoming Extinct David Benatar, Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence Chapter 3 DEATH Stephen E. Rosenbaum, How to be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus George Pitcher, The Misfortunes of the Dead Steven Luper, Annihilation Fred Feldman, Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death Frederick Kaufman, Pre-Vital and Post-Mortem Non-Existence David B. Suits, Why Death is not Bad for the One who Died Chapter 4 IMMORTALITY James Lenman, Immortality: A letter Bernard Williams, The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality John Martin Fischer, Why Immortality is Not So Bad Christine Overall, From here to eternity: Is it good to live forever? Chapter 5 SUICIDE David Hume, Of Suicide Immanuel Kant, Suicide and Duty David Benatar, Suicide: A Qualified Defence Chapter 6 OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM Margaret A. Boden, Optimism Samantha Vice, Optimism and Meaning Bruce N. Waller, The sad truth: optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World ...

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• Authors: David Benatar, Samantha Vice, Samantha Wolf Vice, Susan Wolf
• Assisted by: David Benatar (Editor), Benatar David (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2016
• EAN: 9781442258310
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5831-0
• No. of pages: 484
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Medieval Western philosophy