Title:
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of death / edited by Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson.
Author:
Bradley, Ben, 1971- editor.
Feldman, Fred, 1941- editor.
Johansson, Jens, 1974- editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
©2013
Call Number:
BD444 .O94 2015
ISBN:
9780190271459
Physical Description:
xii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents:
Introduction : philosophy of death / When do things die? / Death and the disintegration of personality / The person and the corpse / Personal identity and the survival of death / The evil of death : what can metaphysics contribute? / Death and Eternal recurrence / Death in Socrates, Plato, and Artistotle / When death is there, we are not : Epicurus on pleasure and death / The badness of death and the goodness of life / The symmetry problem / The timing problem / Death, value, and desire / Death and rational emotion / Retroactive harms and wrongs / Immortality / The Makropulos case revisited : reflections on immortality and agency / The wrongness of killing and the badness of death / Abortion and death / The morality of killing in war : some traditional and nontraditional views / The significance of death for animals / Capital punishment
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