Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life
Title | Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life PDF eBook |
Author | John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2019-06-19 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9780190921149 |
"There are seven chapters, addressing philosophical issues pertaining to death, the badness of death, time and death, ideas on immortality, near death experiences, and extending life through medical technology. The book is shorter, and less elaborate, than Kagan's Death. And it goes into more depth about a selection of central issues related to death and immortality than May's book. It gives an original take on various basic puzzles pertaining to death, and integrates a discussion of these philosophical issues with an analysis of near-death experiences, as well as an exploration of contemporary efforts to extend life by heroic medical means"--
Life, Death, and Immortality
Title | Life, Death, and Immortality PDF eBook |
Author | Terrill G. Hayes |
Publisher | Baha'i Publishing Trust |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781931847285 |
The Journey of the Soul begins and ends by answering the weightiest questions we can pose about our reality as human beings: What is the purpose of life? What is death? How do we attain true happiness? What is the soul and how does it develop? What is the nature of the afterlife? Will we know and recognize our loved ones? Answers to these questions and more are found in this profound and comforting collection of readings, meditations, and prayers from the Baha'i writings.
Life, Death, and Meaning
Title | Life, Death, and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | David Benatar |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2016-03-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1442258322 |
Life, Death, and Meaning is designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy.
Death and the Meaning of Life
Title | Death and the Meaning of Life PDF eBook |
Author | graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781560727040 |
Presents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy's beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life. Contains two booklets ("About Immortality" No. 751 and "About Death" No. 752) compiled by Tolstoy comprising quotations from various philosophers explaining the meaning that death gives to life; essays explaining the actions that Tolstoy thought must be taken to grow spiritually; and finally, diary entries (translated here for the first time in English) pertaining to spiritual themes made during the last year of Tolstoy's life.
Our Stories
Title | Our Stories PDF eBook |
Author | John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2009-05-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199705305 |
In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. He defends the claim that something can be a bad thing--a misfortune--for an individual, even if he never experiences it as bad (and even if he does not any longer exist). Fischer also defends the commonsense asymmetry in our attitudes toward death and prenatal nonexistence: we are indifferent to the time before we are born, but we regret that we do not live longer. Further, Fischer argues (against the immortality curmudgeons, such as Heidegger and Bernard Williams), that immortal life could be desirable, and shows how the defense of the (possible) badness of death and the (possible) goodness of immortality exhibit a similar structure; on Fischer's view, the badness of death and the goodness of life can be represented on spectra that display certain continuities. Building on Fischer's previous book, My Way a major aim of this volume is to show important connections between issues relating to life and death and issues relating to free will. More specifically, Fischer argues that we endow our lives with a certain distinctive kind of meaning--an irreducible narrative dimension of value--by exhibiting free will. Thus, in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter.
Immortality and the Philosophy of Death
Title | Immortality and the Philosophy of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cholbi |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2015-12-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783483857 |
A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.
The Book of Immortality
Title | The Book of Immortality PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Gollner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2014-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439109435 |
An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.