| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xii, 472 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: The meaning of life. The meaning of life / Richard Taylor ; The absurd / Thomas Nagel ; "Nothing matters" / Richard Hare ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / W.D. Joske ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / Robert Nozick ; The meanings of life / David Schmidtz ; The meanings of lives / Susan Wolf -- Part II: Creating people. Whether causing someone to exist can benefit this person / Derek Parfit ; Why not let life become extinct? / John Leslie ; On becoming extinct / James Lenman ; Why it is better never to come into existence / David Benatar -- Part III: Death. How to be dead and not care : a defense of Epicurus / Stephen E. Rosenbaum ; The misfortunes of the dead / George Pitcher ; Annihilation / Steven Luper ; Some puzzles about the evil of death / Fred Feldman ; Pre-vital and post-mortem non-existence / Frederik Kaufman ; Why death is not bad for the one who died / David B. Suits -- Part IV: Immortality. Immortality : a letter / James Lenman ; The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams ; Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer ; "From here to eternity" : is it good to live forever? / Christine Overall -- Part V: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume ; Suicide and duty ; Immanuel Kant ; Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar -- Part VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden ; Optivism and meaning / Samantha Vice ; The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller ; On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer. |
| Subject |
Life.
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Death.
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Life. (OCoLC)fst01198505
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| Added Author |
Benatar, David, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Life, death, and meaning. Third Edition. Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442258327 (DLC) 2016002220 |
| ISBN |
9781442258310 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1442258314 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781442258334 paperback alkaline paper |
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1442258330 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781442258327 |
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