Samuel Scheffler

Death and the Afterlife

Herausgeber: Kolodny, Niko

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone.

Produktdetails

• The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780190469177
• ISBN-10: 019046917X
• Artikelnr.: 47867149

Autorenporträt

Samuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, and Equality and Tradition. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he delivered the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley, on which this book is based.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Samuel Scheffler
Introduction
Niko Kolodny
Death and the Afterlife
Samuel Scheffler
Lecture One: The Afterlife (Part I)
Lecture Two: The Afterlife (Part II)
Lecture Three: Fear, Death, and Confidence
Comments and Replies
The Significance of Doomsday
Susan Wolf
How the Afterlife Matters
Harry G. Frankfurt
Preserving the Valued or Preserving Valuing?
Seana Valentine Shiffrin
That I Should Die and Others Live
Niko Kolodny
Death, Value, and the Afterlife: Responses
Samuel Scheffler
Index