Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying
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Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying
Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
Cholbi, Michael; Timmerman, Travis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
12/2020
288
Dura
Inglês
9781138393578
15 a 20 dias
690
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PART I When Do We Die? 1 Defining Death: A Report on the Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death (Excerpt) 2 Defining Death in a Technological World: Why Brain Death Is Death 3 We Die When Entropy Overwhelms Homeostasis 4 What It Is to Die PART II Can We Survive Our Death? 5 The Tragic Sense of Life (Excerpts) 6 Can We Survive Our Deaths? 7 The Possibility of an Afterlife PART III Can Death Be Good or Bad for Us? If So, When Is It Good or Bad for Us? 8 Letter to Menoeceus 9 Two Arguments for Epicureanism 10 Why Death Is Not Bad for the One Who Dies 11 Death Is Bad for Us When We're Dead 12 Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who Dies PART IV Can Lucretius' Asymmetry Problem Be Solved? 13 On the Nature of Things (Excerpts) 14 If You Want to Die Later, Then Why Don't You Want to Have Been Born Earlier? 15 Coming Into and Going Out of Existence PART V Would Immortality Be Good for Us? 16 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Excerpts) 17 The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die 18 How to Live a Never-Ending Novela (Or, Why Immortality Needn't Undermine Identity 19 Taking Stock of the Risks of Life without Death 20 Immortality, Boredom, and Standing for Something PART VI What Is the Best Attitude to Take Toward Our Mortality? 21 Death, Mortality, and Meaning 22 Fitting Attitudes Towards Deprivations 23 The Enchiridion (Excerpts) 24 Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion (Excerpts) 25 Voluntary Death PART VII How Should We React to the Deaths of Others? 26 Letter to Lucilius 27 Why Grieve? 28 The Significance of Future Generations 29 Death and Survival Online PART VIII Is Suicide Rationally or Morally Defensible? 30 Whether One Is Allowed to Kill Oneself 31 Of Suicide (Excerpts) 32 Suicide is Sometimes Rational and Morally Defensible 33 Suicide and Its Discontents 34 An Irrational Suicide? PART IX How Does Death Affect the Meaningfulness of Our Lives? 35 World as Will and Representation (Excerpts) 36 Death in Mind: Life, Meaning, and Mortality 37 Meaning in Life in Spite of Death 38 Out of the Blue into the Black: Reflections on Death and Meaning
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Brain Death;Holding;Philosophical issues;Death And Dying;Best Life;Overwhelms homeostasis;Epic Of Gilgamesh;Human mortality;Follow;Epicureanism;Living;Wo;Violates;Worthwhile;Ill;Odd;Irreversible Cessation;Strong;Immortal Life;Epicurean Argument;Person's Death;Live Forever;Duplicates;Determination Of Death;Destiny;Deprivationist Accounts;Confer;Uploaded;Inclined;afterlife;biomedical research;Boredom Thesis;deprivationism;dying philosophy;homeostasis;immortality;legal and ethical issues;Lucretius' asymmetry problem;medical interventions;rational suicide;Schopenhauer' classic texts;The Enchiridion;The Epic of Gilgamesh;voluntary death
PART I When Do We Die? 1 Defining Death: A Report on the Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death (Excerpt) 2 Defining Death in a Technological World: Why Brain Death Is Death 3 We Die When Entropy Overwhelms Homeostasis 4 What It Is to Die PART II Can We Survive Our Death? 5 The Tragic Sense of Life (Excerpts) 6 Can We Survive Our Deaths? 7 The Possibility of an Afterlife PART III Can Death Be Good or Bad for Us? If So, When Is It Good or Bad for Us? 8 Letter to Menoeceus 9 Two Arguments for Epicureanism 10 Why Death Is Not Bad for the One Who Dies 11 Death Is Bad for Us When We're Dead 12 Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who Dies PART IV Can Lucretius' Asymmetry Problem Be Solved? 13 On the Nature of Things (Excerpts) 14 If You Want to Die Later, Then Why Don't You Want to Have Been Born Earlier? 15 Coming Into and Going Out of Existence PART V Would Immortality Be Good for Us? 16 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Excerpts) 17 The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die 18 How to Live a Never-Ending Novela (Or, Why Immortality Needn't Undermine Identity 19 Taking Stock of the Risks of Life without Death 20 Immortality, Boredom, and Standing for Something PART VI What Is the Best Attitude to Take Toward Our Mortality? 21 Death, Mortality, and Meaning 22 Fitting Attitudes Towards Deprivations 23 The Enchiridion (Excerpts) 24 Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion (Excerpts) 25 Voluntary Death PART VII How Should We React to the Deaths of Others? 26 Letter to Lucilius 27 Why Grieve? 28 The Significance of Future Generations 29 Death and Survival Online PART VIII Is Suicide Rationally or Morally Defensible? 30 Whether One Is Allowed to Kill Oneself 31 Of Suicide (Excerpts) 32 Suicide is Sometimes Rational and Morally Defensible 33 Suicide and Its Discontents 34 An Irrational Suicide? PART IX How Does Death Affect the Meaningfulness of Our Lives? 35 World as Will and Representation (Excerpts) 36 Death in Mind: Life, Meaning, and Mortality 37 Meaning in Life in Spite of Death 38 Out of the Blue into the Black: Reflections on Death and Meaning
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Brain Death;Holding;Philosophical issues;Death And Dying;Best Life;Overwhelms homeostasis;Epic Of Gilgamesh;Human mortality;Follow;Epicureanism;Living;Wo;Violates;Worthwhile;Ill;Odd;Irreversible Cessation;Strong;Immortal Life;Epicurean Argument;Person's Death;Live Forever;Duplicates;Determination Of Death;Destiny;Deprivationist Accounts;Confer;Uploaded;Inclined;afterlife;biomedical research;Boredom Thesis;deprivationism;dying philosophy;homeostasis;immortality;legal and ethical issues;Lucretius' asymmetry problem;medical interventions;rational suicide;Schopenhauer' classic texts;The Enchiridion;The Epic of Gilgamesh;voluntary death
