David Benatar is professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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PREFACE INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 THE MEANING OF LIFE Richard Taylor The Meaning of Life Thomas Nagel The Absurd Richard Hare 'Nothing Matters' W.D. Joske Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Robert Nozick Philosophy and the Meaning of Life David Schmidtz The Meanings of Life Susan Wolf The Meanings of Lives Chapter 2 CREATING PEOPLE Derek Parfit Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person John Leslie Why Not Let Life Become Extinct? James Lenman On Becoming Extinct David Benatar Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence Chapter 3 DEATH Stephen E. Rosenbaum How to be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus George Pitcher The Misfortunes of the Dead Steven Luper Annihilation Fred Feldman Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death Frederick Kaufman Pre-Vital and Post-Mortem Non-Existence David B. Suits Why Death is not Bad for the One who Died Chapter 4 IMMORTALITY James Lenman Immortality: A letter Bernard Williams The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality John Martin Fischer Why Immortality is Not So Bad Christine Overall From here to eternity: Is it good to live forever? Chapter 5 SUICIDE David Hume Of Suicide Immanuel Kant Suicide and Duty David Benatar Suicide: A Qualified Defence Chapter 6 OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM Margaret A. Boden Optimism Samantha Vice Optimism and Meaning Bruce N. Waller The sad truth: optimism pessimism and pragmatism Arthur Schopenhauer On the Suffering of the World
PREFACE INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 THE MEANING OF LIFE Richard Taylor The Meaning of Life Thomas Nagel The Absurd Richard Hare 'Nothing Matters' W.D. Joske Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Robert Nozick Philosophy and the Meaning of Life David Schmidtz The Meanings of Life Susan Wolf The Meanings of Lives Chapter 2 CREATING PEOPLE Derek Parfit Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person John Leslie Why Not Let Life Become Extinct? James Lenman On Becoming Extinct David Benatar Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence Chapter 3 DEATH Stephen E. Rosenbaum How to be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus George Pitcher The Misfortunes of the Dead Steven Luper Annihilation Fred Feldman Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death Frederick Kaufman Pre-Vital and Post-Mortem Non-Existence David B. Suits Why Death is not Bad for the One who Died Chapter 4 IMMORTALITY James Lenman Immortality: A letter Bernard Williams The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality John Martin Fischer Why Immortality is Not So Bad Christine Overall From here to eternity: Is it good to live forever? Chapter 5 SUICIDE David Hume Of Suicide Immanuel Kant Suicide and Duty David Benatar Suicide: A Qualified Defence Chapter 6 OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM Margaret A. Boden Optimism Samantha Vice Optimism and Meaning Bruce N. Waller The sad truth: optimism pessimism and pragmatism Arthur Schopenhauer On the Suffering of the World
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