
By David Benatar,Margaret A. Boden,Fred Feldman,John Martin Fischer,Richard Hare,David Hume,W.D Joske,Immanuel Kant,Frederick Kaufman,James Lenman,John Leslie,Steven Luper,Thomas Nagel,Robert Nozick,ChristineOverall,Derek Parfit,George Pitcher,Stephen E. Ros
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ISBN-13: 9781442258310
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ISBN-13: 9781442258334
While many philosophers within the "continental tradition"—those referred to as "existentialists"—have engaged those matters at size and sometimes with nice renowned attraction, English-speaking philosophers have had fairly little to claim on those vital questions. but, the method they bring about to philosophical questions can, and sometimes has, been utilized usefully to "existential" questions. This quantity attracts jointly a consultant pattern of essentially English-speaking philosophers' reflections on life's monstrous questions, divided into six sections, protecting (1) the which means of lifestyles, (2) growing humans, (3) loss of life, (4) suicide, (5) immortality, and (6) optimism and pessimism. those key readings are supplemented with useful introductions, examine questions, and recommendations for extra studying, making the cloth available and engaging for college students. briefly, the ebook offers a novel creation to the best way that philosophy has handled the massive questions of lifestyles that we're all tempted to ask.
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Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions by David Benatar,Margaret A. Boden,Fred Feldman,John Martin Fischer,Richard Hare,David Hume,W.D Joske,Immanuel Kant,Frederick Kaufman,James Lenman,John Leslie,Steven Luper,Thomas Nagel,Robert Nozick,ChristineOverall,Derek Parfit,George Pitcher,Stephen E. Ros
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