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Death /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kagan, Shelly
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2012]
Series:Open Yale courses series.
Subjects:
Death.
Table of Contents:
  • Thinking about death
  • Dualism vs. physicalism
  • Arguments for the existence of the soul
  • Descartes' argument
  • Plato on the immortality of the soul
  • Personal identity
  • Choosing between the theories
  • The nature of death
  • Two surprising claims about death
  • The badness of death
  • Immortality
  • The value of life
  • Other aspects of death
  • Living in the face of death
  • Suicide
  • Conclusion: an invitation.