The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
James Stacey Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He primarily writes on autonomy theory, and the metaphysics of death, as well as on how these theoretical issues relate to matters of practical ethical concern.
Inhaltsangabe
* Contributors * Acknowledgements * Introduction - James Stacey Taylor * Section I: Classical Approaches to Death and their Critics * The Damage of Death: Incomplete Arguments and False Consolations - Martha Nussbaum * The harm of death in Cicero's first Tusculan disputation - James Warren * Epicurus on the Value of Death - Kai Draper * Section II: Death, and the Value of Death * The Evil of Death One More Time: Parallels between Time and Space - Harry S. Silverstein, * Adaptation - Steven Luper * Death and Desires - Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel * Kripke's Moses - Palle Yourgrau * Concepts of Value and Our Thinking about Death - Stephen E. Rosenbaum * Section III: Posthumous Harm * The Vulnerability of the Dead - Geoffrey Scarre * Welfare and Harm After Death - Barbara Baum Levenbook * Section IV: Death and Bioethics * Doing Posthumous Harm - John Harris * Suicide: A Qualified Defense - David Benatar * Brain Injury and Survival - Walter Glannon * Index
* Contributors * Acknowledgements * Introduction - James Stacey Taylor * Section I: Classical Approaches to Death and their Critics * The Damage of Death: Incomplete Arguments and False Consolations - Martha Nussbaum * The harm of death in Cicero's first Tusculan disputation - James Warren * Epicurus on the Value of Death - Kai Draper * Section II: Death, and the Value of Death * The Evil of Death One More Time: Parallels between Time and Space - Harry S. Silverstein, * Adaptation - Steven Luper * Death and Desires - Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel * Kripke's Moses - Palle Yourgrau * Concepts of Value and Our Thinking about Death - Stephen E. Rosenbaum * Section III: Posthumous Harm * The Vulnerability of the Dead - Geoffrey Scarre * Welfare and Harm After Death - Barbara Baum Levenbook * Section IV: Death and Bioethics * Doing Posthumous Harm - John Harris * Suicide: A Qualified Defense - David Benatar * Brain Injury and Survival - Walter Glannon * Index
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