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" Life, death, and meaning : "
edited by David Benatar.
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BL
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849186
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Life, death, and meaning : : key philosophical readings on the big questions /\ edited by David Benatar.
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| Edition Statement
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Third edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham :: Rowman & Littlefield,, [2016]
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xii, 472 pages ;; 24 cm
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1442258314
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: 1442258330
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: 9781442258310
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: 9781442258334
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9781442258327
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Part I: The meaning of life. The meaning of life / Richard Taylor ; The absurd / Thomas Nagel ; "Nothing matters" / Richard Hare ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / W.D. Joske ; Philosophy and the meaning of life / Robert Nozick ; The meanings of life / David Schmidtz ; The meanings of lives / Susan Wolf -- Part II: Creating people. Whether causing someone to exist can benefit this person / Derek Parfit ; Why not let life become extinct? / John Leslie ; On becoming extinct / James Lenman ; Why it is better never to come into existence / David Benatar -- Part III: Death. How to be dead and not care : a defense of Epicurus / Stephen E. Rosenbaum ; The misfortunes of the dead / George Pitcher ; Annihilation / Steven Luper ; Some puzzles about the evil of death / Fred Feldman ; Pre-vital and post-mortem non-existence / Frederik Kaufman ; Why death is not bad for the one who died / David B. Suits -- Part IV: Immortality. Immortality : a letter / James Lenman ; The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams ; Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer ; "From here to eternity" : is it good to live forever? / Christine Overall -- Part V: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume ; Suicide and duty ; Immanuel Kant ; Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar -- Part VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden ; Optimism and meaning / Samantha Vice ; The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller ; On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Death.
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Life.
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Death.
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Life.
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| Dewey Classification
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128
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BD431.L418 2016
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Benatar, David
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