Life, death, and meaning
Subtitle: key philosophical readings on the big questions
By: edited by David Benatar
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781442201699; 9781442201705
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: The meaning of life; title: Richard Taylor, The meaning of life; title: Thomas Nagel, The absurd; title: Richard Hare, Nothing matters; title: W.D. Joske, Philosophy and the meaning of life; title: Robert Nozick, Philosophy and the meaning of life; title: David Schmidtz, The meanings of life; title: Part II: Creating people; title: Derek Parfit, Whether causing someone to exist can benefit this person; title: John Leslie, Why not let life ecome extinct?; title: James Lenman, On becoming extinct; title: David Benatar, Why it is better never to come into existence; title: Part III: Death; title: Stephen E. Rosenbaum, How to be dead and not care : a defense of epicurus; title: GeorgePpitcher, The misfortunes of the dead; title: Steven Luper, Annihilation; title: Fred Fldman, Some puzzles about the evil of death; title: Frederick Kaufman, Pre-vital and post-mortem non-existence; title: David B. Suits, Why death is not bad for the one who died; title: Part IV: Suicide; title: David Hume, Of suicide; title: Immanuel Kant, Suicide and duty; title: David Benatar, Suicide : a qualified defence; title: Part V: Immortality; title: James Lenman, Immortality : a letter; title: Bernard Williams, The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality; title: John Martin Fischer, Why immortality is not so bad; title: Christine Overall, from here to eternity : is it good to live forever?; title: Part VI: Optimism and pessimism; title: Margaret A. Boden, Optimism; title: Michaelis Michael and Peter Caldwell, The consolations of optimism; title: Bruce N. Waller, The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism; title: Arthur Schopenhauer, On the suffering of the world.