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Death and Meaning

Death and Meaning

Death and Meaning

Volume 90:
Michael Hauskeller
April 2022
90
Paperback
9781009187862
$39.00
USD
Paperback

    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.

    • Contains contributions from leading philosophers in the field on meaning, life and death
    • Subjects covered include euthanasia, dying for a cause, the meaning of pain and the idea of the imperfect life
    • The different approaches to death and meaning within this volume give a range of perspectives on some of the biggest questions we are faced with

    Product details

    April 2022
    Paperback
    9781009187862
    322 pages
    228 × 150 × 15 mm
    0.46kg
    Available

    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.
      Contributors
    • Michael Hauskeller, Sven Nyholm, Guy Kahane, Antti Kauppinen, James Stacey Taylor, Thaddeus Metz, Daniel Hill, Drew Chastain, Havi Carel, Teodora Manea, Michael Cholbi, Thomas Schramme, F. M. Kamm, Fredrik Svenaeus

    • Editor
    • Michael Hauskeller