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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
2. Second Edition

von: David Benatar, Frederick Kaufman, James Lenman, John Leslie, Steven Luper, Michaelis Michael, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, , ChristineOverall, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Margaret A. Boden, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Peter Caldwell, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant
79,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.01.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9781442201712
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	472

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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. While many philosophers in the 'continental tradition'_those known as 'existentialists'_have engaged these issues at length and often with great popular appeal, English-speaking philosophers have had relatively little to say on these important questions. Yet, the methodology they bring to philosophical questions can, and occasionally has, been applied usefully to 'existential' questions. This volume draws together a representative sample of primarily English-speaking philosophers' reflections on life's big questions, divided into six sections, covering (1) the meaning of life, (2) creating people, (3) death, (4) suicide, (5) immortality, and (6) optimism and pessimism. These key readings are supplemented with helpful introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading, making the material accessible and interesting for students. In short, the book provides a singular introduction to the way that philosophy has dealt with the big questions of life that we are all tempted to ask.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Preface
 Chapter 2 Introduction
 Part 3 Chapter 1: The Meaning of Life
 Chapter 4 The Meaning of Life
 Chapter 5 The Absurd
 Chapter 6 'Nothing Matters'
 Chapter 7 Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
 Chapter 8 Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
 Chapter 9 The Meanings of Life
 Part 10 Chapter 2: Creating People
 Chapter 11 Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person
 Chapter 12 Why Not Let Life Become Extinct?
 Chapter 13 On Becoming Extinct
 Chapter 14 Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence
 Part 15 Chapter 3: Death
 Chapter 16 How to be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus
 Chapter 17 The Misfortunes of the Dead
 Chapter 18 Annihilation
 Chapter 19 Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death
 Chapter 20 Pre-Vital and Post-Mortem Non-Existence
 Chapter 21 Why Death is not Bad for the One who Died
 Part 22 Chapter 4: Suicide
 Chapter 23 Of Suicide
 Chapter 24 Suicide and Duty
 Chapter 25 Suicide: A Qualified Defence
 Part 26 Chapter 5: Immortality
 Chapter 27 Immortality: A letter
 Chapter 28 The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality
 Chapter 29 Why Immortality is Not So Bad
 Chapter 30 From here to eternity: Is it good to live forever?
 Part 31 Chapter 6: Optimism and Pessimism
 Chapter 32 Optimism
 Chapter 33 The Consolations of Optimism
 Chapter 34 The sad truth: optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism
 Chapter 35 On the Suffering of the World