Routledge | Exploring The Philosophy Of Death And Dying: Classical And Contemporary Perspectives (2021 EN)

Author: Travis Timmerman, Michael Cholbi
Full Title: Exploring The Philosophy Of Death And Dying: Classical And Contemporary Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (December 31, 2020)
Year: 2021
ISBN-13: 9781003106050 (978-1-00-310605-0), 9781138393578 (978-1-138-39357-8), 9781138393585 (978-1-138-39358-5)
ISBN-10: 1003106056, 1138393576, 1138393584
Pages: 288
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy
File type: PDF (True, but nonnative Cover)
Quality: 9/10
Price: £96.00


Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life. Included are many of the essential voices that have contributed to the philosophy of death and dying throughout history and in contemporary research. The 38 chapters in its nine sections contain classic texts (by authors such as Epicurus, Hume, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer) and new short argumentative essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by world-leading contemporary experts.

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying introduces students to both theoretical issues (whether we can survive death, whether death is truly bad for us, whether immortality would be desirable, etc.) and urgent practical issues (the ethics of suicide, the value of grief, the appropriate medical criteria for declaring death, etc.) raised by human mortality, enabling instructors to adapt it to a wide array of institutions and student audiences.

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