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020			_a 9781107669321
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100	1		_aThomas Nagel
245	1	0	_aMortal Questions /
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press, _c2013
300			_a 213 _c22 cm.
490	1		_aCanto classics
500			_aThis 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.
505			_aPreface; 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.
650		0	_aLife.
650		0	_aEthics.
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1305/2011294579-d.html
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1305/2011294579-t.html
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