| Description |
xiv, 249 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index. |
| Summary |
"What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death, concluding with a novel consequentialist theory about the morality of killing, applying it to such thorny practical issues as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Contents |
The Reaper--Mysterious and Evil -- The Nature of Death -- The Search for Death Itself -- The Problems of Death -- Conceptual Analysis -- Analysis of Death or Criterion for Death? -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Life as a Part of Death -- Life-Functional Theories of Life -- Life Itself -- Some Preliminary Objections -- Aristotle's Life-Functional Analysis of Life -- Some Modern Life-Functional Analyses of Life -- The Matthews Approach -- Vitalist Theories of Life -- Vitalism -- The Empirical Problem -- The Jonah Problem -- The Failure of Analyticity -- DNA-ism -- Genetic Informationism -- Problems for Genetic Informationism -- The Enigma of Death -- The Gift of Life -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Perrett's Analysis -- The Standard Analysis -- Puzzles About Suspended Animation -- Problems Concerning Fission and Fusion -- The Mystery of Death -- On Dying as a Process -- Two Senses of 'Dying,' -- Some Preliminary Proposals -- Smart's Analysis of Dying2 -- Problems for Smart's Analysis -- A New Proposal -- More Mysteries of Dying2 -- On Death and Dying2 -- The Survival of Death -- The Termination Thesis -- Some Philosophers Who Have Accepted the Termination Thesis -- Doubts About the Termination Thesis -- The Argument from Definition -- The Argument from Dualism -- Corpses and People -- Death and Nonexistence As -- A Materialist Conception of Death -- A New Approach to Death -- The Lifeline -- Death Itself, "a Death," and Being Dead -- Death and Life -- Death and Existence -- Deaths, Lives, and Histories. |
| Subject |
Death.
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Life.
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Abortion.
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Suicide.
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| Indexed Term |
Death |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Feldman, Fred, 1941- Confrontations with the reaper. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)555726625 |
| ISBN |
0195071026 alkaline paper |
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9780195071023 alkaline paper |
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