TitleImmortality and the philosophy of death / edited by Michael Cholbi
Imprint Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016
Descript xiv, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Introduction -- Part I : Is death bad for those that die? -- Victims -- Reconsidering categorical desire view -- Epicureanism, extrinsic badness, and prudence -- Lucretius and the fear of death -- The harms of death -- Seeds: On personal identity and resurrection -- Part II : Living with death -- Fearing death as fearing the loss of one's life: Lessons from alzheimer's disease -- Constructing death as form of failure: Addressing mortality in a neoliberal age -- Love and death -- Learning to be dead: The narrative problem of mortality -- Love and death: The problem of resilience -- Part III : The value of an immortal life -- Immortality, identity, and desirability -- Resources for overcoming the boredom of immortality in Fischer and Kierkegaard -- Immortality and the exhaustibility of value


SUBJECT

  1. Death
  2. Immortality

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Political Science Library128.5 I33 CHECK SHELVES