Death and meaning
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Death and meaning
（Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 90）
Cambridge University Press, c2021
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of papers aims to increase our understanding of a) what meaning in life is: how it is to be understood, what its constituents are, and how it can be properly distinguished from other features that are commonly thought to be required for a good life, such as happiness, b) in what way, if any, mortality can be said to be detrimental to a life's meaningfulness and what follows from this for the desirability of radical life extension and other (limit-removing) alterations of the present human condition, and c) in what way, if any, death and mortality can be said to be requisites or at least constituents of a meaningful life.
Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Death and Meaning Michael Hauskeller
- 1. Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life and What Happens After We Die Sven Nyholm
- 2. Importance, Fame, and Transcending Limits Guy Kahane
- 3. Dying for a Cause Antti Kauppinen
- 4. Promises to the Dead James Stacey Taylor
- 5. Comparting the Meaningfulness of Finite and Infinite Lives: Can We Reap What We Sow if We Are Immortal? Thaddeus Metz
- 6. God, the Meaning of Life, and Meaning in Lives Daniel Hill
- 7. When Death Comes Too Late. Radical Life Extension and the Makropulos Case Michael Hauskeller
- 8. Desirability without Desire. Life Extension, Boredom and Spiritual Experience Drew Chastain
- 9. Meaning, Value, and the Imperfect Life Havi Carel
- 10. The Meaning of Pain and the Pain of Meaning Teodora Manea
- 11. Grieving Our Way Back to Meaningfulness Michael Cholbi
- 12. Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person Who Dies? Thomas Schramme
- 13. Meaning in Lives Nearing Their End F.M. Kamm
- 14. Why Do People Want to Die? The Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Euthanasia Fredrik Svenaeus.
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