Thomas Nagel: Mortal Questions (Canto Classics), Kartoniert / Broschiert
Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 02/2019
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107604711
- Item number:
- 2341231
- Volume:
- 230 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Weight:
- 296 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 22.2.2019
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Short description
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. 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.
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.
Content
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.
Blurb
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explore some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war and political power are shown about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value.
Biography
Thomas Nagel wurde am 4. Juli 1937 in Belgrad geboren, kam aber bereits 1939 in die Vereinigten Staaten und wuchs in New York auf: 1958 schloss er seine Studien an der Cornell University ab, studierte in Oxford und in Harvard und nahm später Lehrtätigkeiten u. a. in Berkeley und in Princeton auf. Gegenwärtig lehrt er an der New York University School of Law.
