Death and nonexistence / Palle Yourgrau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yourgrau, Palle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Nihilism (Philosophy).

Nothing (Philosophy).

Ontology.

Nonbeing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death must at the same time resolve the paradox of nonexistence--that there must be something ""there"" that fails to exist. This is the aim of Palle Yourgrau's Death and Nonexistence, which provides an ontology of death, i.e. of ceasing to exist, and at the same time, an ontology of birth, i.e. coming to exist. The primary thesis of this book is that this requires expanding one's ontology beyond existence and nonexistence to include what underlies both, namely, ""being"". The dead lack existence, but not being. Moreover, though they have forfei.

Contents:

The paradox of nonexistence

The predicate of existence

Nonexistence and death

The cloud or the raindrops?

Where you go when you're dead

Taking possible worlds seriously

Time and existence

Fellow travelers

Beyond metaphysics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-024749-5

0-19-005396-8

0-19-024748-7