Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life write by John Martin Fischer. This book was released on 2019-06-19. Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "There are seven chapters, addressing philosophical issues pertaining to death, the badness of death, time and death, ideas on immortality, near death experiences, and extending life through medical technology. The book is shorter, and less elaborate, than Kagan's Death. And it goes into more depth about a selection of central issues related to death and immortality than May's book. It gives an original take on various basic puzzles pertaining to death, and integrates a discussion of these philosophical issues with an analysis of near-death experiences, as well as an exploration of contemporary efforts to extend life by heroic medical means"--
Life, Death, and Immortality
Life, Death, and Immortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life, Death, and Immortality write by Terrill G. Hayes. This book was released on 2006. Life, Death, and Immortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Journey of the Soul begins and ends by answering the weightiest questions we can pose about our reality as human beings: What is the purpose of life? What is death? How do we attain true happiness? What is the soul and how does it develop? What is the nature of the afterlife? Will we know and recognize our loved ones? Answers to these questions and more are found in this profound and comforting collection of readings, meditations, and prayers from the Baha'i writings.
Our Stories
Our Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Stories write by John Martin Fischer. This book was released on 2009-05-06. Our Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. He defends the claim that something can be a bad thing--a misfortune--for an individual, even if he never experiences it as bad (and even if he does not any longer exist). Fischer also defends the commonsense asymmetry in our attitudes toward death and prenatal nonexistence: we are indifferent to the time before we are born, but we regret that we do not live longer. Further, Fischer argues (against the immortality curmudgeons, such as Heidegger and Bernard Williams), that immortal life could be desirable, and shows how the defense of the (possible) badness of death and the (possible) goodness of immortality exhibit a similar structure; on Fischer's view, the badness of death and the goodness of life can be represented on spectra that display certain continuities. Building on Fischer's previous book, My Way a major aim of this volume is to show important connections between issues relating to life and death and issues relating to free will. More specifically, Fischer argues that we endow our lives with a certain distinctive kind of meaning--an irreducible narrative dimension of value--by exhibiting free will. Thus, in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter.
Death
Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death write by Todd May. This book was released on 2014-12-05. Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures who die, and who know we are going to die? In answering these questions, May brings together two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact. May shows that if we are to live with death, we need to hold these two perspectives together. Their convergence yields both a beauty and a tragedy to our living that are inextricably entwined.Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and writers - ancient and modern - as well as his own experience, May puts forward a particular view of how we might think about and, more importantly, live our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, it is precisely the contingency of our lives that must be grasped and which must be folded into the hours or years that remain to each of us, so that we can live each moment as though it were at once a link to an uncertain future and yet perhaps the only link we have left.
Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy
Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy write by Alex Long. This book was released on 2019-06-13. Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
