Death /
Author / Creator: | Kagan, Shelly, author. |
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Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. ©2012 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 376 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | The open Yale courses series Open Yale courses series. |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148542 |
Summary: | There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Or should we accept an account according to which people are just material objects, nothing more? Can we make sense of the idea of surviving the death of one's body? If I won't exist after I die, can death truly be bad for me? Would immortality be desirable? Is fear of death appropriate? Is suicide ever justified? How should I live in the face of death? Written in an informal and conversational style, this stimulating and provocative book challenges many widely held views about death, as it invites the reader to take a fresh look at one of the central features of the human condition--the fact that we will die.#160; |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 376 pages) : illustrations |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780300183429 0300183429 9786613600851 6613600857 9780300180848 0300180845 9781280571251 128057125X |