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Life, death, & meaning : key philosophical readings on the big questions /

by Benatar, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xii, 448 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781442201699 (cloth : alk. paper); 144220169X (cloth : alk. paper); 9781442201705 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1442201703 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781442201712 (electronic); 1442201711 (electronic).Other title: Life, death, and meaning.Subject(s): Life | Death
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 -- 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 / Devid 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: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume ; Suicide and duty ; Immanuel Kant ; Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar -- Part V: 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 VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden ; The consolations of optimism / Michaelis Michael and Peter Caldwell ; The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller ; On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 / Devid 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: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume ; Suicide and duty ; Immanuel Kant ; Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar -- Part V: 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 VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden ; The consolations of optimism / Michaelis Michael and Peter Caldwell ; The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller ; On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer.

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