Mortal Questions /
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TextSeries: Publication details: New Delhi Cambridge University Press, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 213 22 cmISBN: - 9781107669321
- 170 T3657 M 102059
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| 160 Sa153 L 104272 Some Philosophical Issues in Logic and Language / | 170 P4417 P 101994 Practical ethics / | 170 R1375 V 102277 Varṇadharma, Niṣkāma Karma, and Practical Morality : | 170 T3657 M 102059 Mortal Questions / | 170.954 In283 E 102609 Ethics and Culture, Some Indian Reflections / | 170.954 In283 E 104273 Ethics and Culture: | 172/.420954 K167 H 102062 Hinduism and the ethics of warfare in South Asia : |
This ed. originally published: 1991.
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death sexual behaviour social inequality war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity consciousness freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.
Preface; Sources; 1. Death; 2. The absurd; 3. Moral luck; 4. Sexual perversion; 5. War and massacre; 6. Ruthlessness in public life; 7. The policy of preference; 8. Equality; 9. The fragmentation of value; 10. Ethics without biology; 11. Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness; 12. What is it like to be a bat?; 13. Panpsychism; 14. Subjective and objective; Index.
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