ABSTRACT

Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Bernard Williams or Thomas Nagel; to non-wester approaches such as are exemplified in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and in Daoist thought; to perspectives influenced by Lucretious, Epicurus and Nietzsche.
Death and Philosophy will be of great interest to philosphers, or those studying religion and theology, buts its clarity and scope ensures it will be accessible to anyone who has considered what it means to be mortal.

chapter 1|4 pages

DEATH AND PHILOSOPHY

chapter 2|10 pages

MY DEATH

chapter 3|5 pages

AGAINST DEATH

chapter 4|15 pages

ON THE PURPORTED INSIGNIFICANCE OF DEATH

chapter 5|10 pages

DEATH AND THE SKELETON

chapter 6|6 pages

DEATH, THE BALD SCENARIO

chapter 8|11 pages

DEATH AND ENLIGHTENMENT

chapter 9|13 pages

DEATH AND DETACHMENT

chapter 10|13 pages

DEATH AND METAPHYSICS

chapter 11|7 pages

DEATH AND AUTHENTICITY

chapter 12|13 pages

DEATH AND THE UNITY OF A LIFE

chapter 13|15 pages

THE ANTINOMY OF DEATH

chapter 14|22 pages

DEATH FETISHISM, MORBID SOLIPSISM