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Titre(s) : Exploring the philosophy of death and dying [Texte imprimé] : classical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Michael Cholbi and Travis Timmerman
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-272 p.) ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Notes bibliogr. Index
"Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that
are raised by the end of life. Included are many of the essential voices that have
contributed to the philosophy of death and dying throughout history and in contemporary
research. The 38 chapters in its nine sections contain both classic texts (by authors
such as Epicurus, Hume, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer) and new short argumentative essays
by world-leading contemporary experts. Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying
introduces students to both theoretical issues (whether we can survive death, whether
death is truly bad for us, whether immortality would be desirable, etc.) and urgent
practical issues (the ethics of suicide, the value of grief, the appropriate medical
criteria for declaring death, etc.) raised by human mortality, enabling instructors
to adapt it to a wide array of institutions and student audiences." -- Book cover
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Cholbi, Michael (1973?-....). Éditeur scientifique
Timmerman, Travis (1986-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Mort -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
128.5 (23e éd.) = Mort (genre humain)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138393578. - ISBN 1138393576. - ISBN 9781138393585. - ISBN 1138393584. -
ISBN 9781003106050 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469397388
Notice n° :
FRBNF46939738
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part I. When do we die? Defining death : a report on the medical, legal and ethical
issues in the determination of death (exerpt) / President's Commission for the Study
of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research ; Defining
death in a technological world : why brain death is death / John P. Lizza ; We die
when entropy overwhelms homeostasis / Michael Nair-Collins ; What it is to die / Cody
Gilmore ; Part II. Can we survive our death? The tragic sense of life (exerpts)
/ Miguel de Unamuno ; Can we survive our deaths? / Stephen Cave ; The possibility
of an afterlife / David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov ; Part III. Can death be good
or bad for us? If so, when is it good or bad for us? Letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus
; Two arguments for epicureanism / Jens Johansson ; Why death is not bad for the one
who dies / James Stacey Taylor ; Death is bad for us when we're dead / Neil Feit ;
Making death not quite as bad for the one who dies / Kirsten Egerstrom ; Part IV.
Can Lucretius' asymmetry problem be solved? ; On the nature of things (excerpts) /
Lucretius ; If you want to die later, then why don't you want to have been born earlier?
/ Travis Timmerman ; Coming into and going out of existence / Frederik Kaufman ;
Part V. Would immortality be good for us? The epic of Gilgamesh (excerpts) ; The story
of the man who did not wish to die / Yei Theodora Ozaki ; How to live a never-ending
novela (or, Why immortality needn't undermine identity) / Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin
; Taking stock of the risks of life without death / August Gorman ; Immortality, boerdom,
and standing for something / David Beglin ; Part VI. What is the best attitude to
take toward our mortality? Death, mortality, and meaning / Todd May ; Fitting attitudes
towards deprivations / Ben Bradley ; The Enchiridion (excerpts) / Epictetus ; Setting
the wheel of Dhamma in motion (excerpts) / Buddha ; Voluntary death (excerpts) / Friedrich
Nietzsche ; Part VII. How should we react to the deaths of others? Letter to Lucilius
/ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ; Why grieve? / Michael Cholbi ; The significance of future
generations / Roman Altshuler ; Death and survival online / Patrick Stokes ; Part
VIII. Is suicide rationally or morally defensible? Whether one is allowed to kill
oneself (excerpts) / St Thomas Aquinas ; Of suicide (excerpts) / David Hume ; Suicide
is sometimes rational and morally defensible / David Benatar ; Suicide and its discontents
/ Philip Reed ; An irrational suicide? / Jukka Varlius ; Part IX. How does death
affect the meaningfulness of our lives? World as will and representation (excerpts)
/ Arthur Schopenhauer ; Death in mind : life, meaning, and mortatlity / Kathy Behrendt
; Meaning in life in spite of death / Thaddeus Metz ; Out of the blue into the black
: reflections on death and meaning / Michael Hauskeller.
