J. Jeremy Wisnewski

Living with the Dead (eBook, ePUB)

On Death, the Dead, and Immortality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000867855
• Artikelnr.: 67398357

Autorenporträt

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College in upstate New York. His previous books include The Politics of Agency (Routledge, 2016), Heidegger (2013), Understanding Torture (2010), and Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Dead Among Us 1. Introduction 2. An Encounter with the Corpse
3. Promises and Respecting the Ends of the Dead: An Arm-twisting Argument
and a Kantian Framework for Respect 4. Disturbing Bodies: Art, Science, and
Exhumation 5. Human Resources: The Cases of Cannibalism and Organ
Harvesting 6. Memento Mortuis: The Obligation to Remember the Dead 7.
Dialogues with the Dead: Memorials, Monuments, and the Duties of History
Part 2: The Immortal Dead 8. The Argument for Modest Immortality 9. Is the
Immortal Life Worth Living? 10. Ars moriendi: Learning to Live with Death
and the Dead