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Death and the afterlife / Samuel Scheffler ; edited and introduced by Niko Kolodny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheffler, Samuel, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Berkeley Tanner Lectures
- Berkeley Tanner lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Future life.
- Death.
- Egoism.
- Values.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Selfishness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 210 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a 'collective afterlife' in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel Scheffler maintains that this assumption plays a surprising - indeed astonishing - role in our lives.
- Contents:
- Death and the afterlife. The afterlife (part I)
- The afterlife (part II)
- Fear, death, and confidence
- Comments. The significance of doomsday / Susan Wolf
- How the afterlife matters / Harry G. Frankfurt
- Preserving the valued or preserving valuing? / Seana Valentine Shiffrin
- That I should die and others live / Niko Kolodny
- Reply to commentators. Death, value, and the afterlife : responses / Samuel Scheffler.
- Notes:
- Includes commentaries by Susan Wolf, Harry G. Frankfurt, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, and Niko Kolodny.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780199982523
- 019998252X
- 9780199369973
- 0199369976
- 9780199982516
- 0199982511
- OCLC:
- 857424001
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