Mortal questions
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Mortal questions
（Cambridge paperbacks, Philosophy . Canto）
Cambridge University Press, 1991, c1979
- : pbk
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Mortal questions / Thomas Nagel
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Mortal questions / Thomas Nagel
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"Canto edition 1991"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Series "Cambridge paperbacks" not appeared in later printing (13th printing, 2008)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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