Language, Metaphysics, and Death
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Language, Metaphysics, and Death

  1. 381 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Language, Metaphysics, and Death

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Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readersThis standard work in thanatology is updated with ten essays new to the second edition, and features a new introduction by Donnelly. The collection addresses certain basic issues inherent in a philosophy of death.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Editor’s Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Coming into Being and Passing Away: Can the Metaphysician Help?
  9. 2. On Death as a Limit
  10. 3. Existentialism and Death: A Survey of Some Confusions and Absurdities
  11. 4. Death
  12. 5. Existentialism and the Fear of Dying
  13. 6. Suicide and Rationality
  14. 7. The Absurd
  15. 8. Death and Ivan Ilych
  16. 9. De Anima
  17. 10. On the Observability of the Self
  18. 11. Biology and the Soul
  19. 12. The Conquest of Death
  20. 13. Survival and the Idea of “Another World”
  21. 14. Immortality and Resurrection
  22. 15. Immortality
  23. 16. Mysticism and the Paradox of Survival
  24. 17. The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
  25. Bibliographical Essay