Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy /
"This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism, and analytic philosophy. He also e...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction
- 2. Biological death
- 3. So-called 'personal death'
- 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death
- 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death
- 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic
- 7. Conclusion
- Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality
- 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death
- 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge"
- 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre
- 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other
- 13. Death as the object of experience
- Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us": 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers
- 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject
- 16. Death: an evil of privation
- Conclusion