Language, Metaphysics, and Death / John Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, John, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Immortality (Philosophy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [1980]

Summary:

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers This standard work in thanatology is updated with ten essays new to the second edition, and features a new introduction by Donnelly. The collection addresses certain basic issues inherent in a philosophy of death.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Editor’s Preface

Introduction

1. Coming into Being and Passing Away: Can the Metaphysician Help?

2. On Death as a Limit

3. Existentialism and Death: A Survey of Some Confusions and Absurdities

4. Death

5. Existentialism and the Fear of Dying

6. Suicide and Rationality

7. The Absurd

8. Death and Ivan Ilych

9. De Anima

10. On the Observability of the Self

11. Biology and the Soul

12. The Conquest of Death

13. Survival and the Idea of “Another World”

14. Immortality and Resurrection

15. Immortality

16. Mysticism and the Paradox of Survival

17. The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality

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Notes:

Electronic book.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781531510923

1531510922

OCLC:

1456758117