Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying (eBook, ePUB)

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Timmerman, Travis; Cholbi, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying is unique in using classic and contemporary texts to introduce students to the central theoretical and practical questions raised by human mortality, making it a versatile resource for instructors with a wide array of pedagogical goals and student audiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000216745
• Artikelnr.: 60581428

Autorenporträt

Michael Cholbi is Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and the founder of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying. His publications include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011), Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (2015), and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (2021). Travis Timmerman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University and executive committee member of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying. He specializes in the philosophy of death, normative ethics, and applied ethics. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities grant and co-recipient of an Immortality Project grant for his work in ethics and death respectively.

Inhaltsangabe

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