Mortal Questions : Canto Classics - Thomas Nagel

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Mortal Questions

Canto Classics

By: Thomas Nagel

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Paperback | 29 March 2012

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Thomas Nagel''s Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.

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???... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.??? P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books
???These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.??? R. A. Duff, The Literary Review
???Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if anyone can seize and keep the general reader??'s attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.??? New Statesman
'... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.' P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books
'These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.' R. A. Duff, The Literary Review
'Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if anyone can seize and keep the general reader's attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.' New Statesman

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Metaphysics & Ontology Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Preface
Sources
Death
The absurd
Moral luck
Sexual perversion
War and massacre
Ruthlessness in public life
The policy of preference
Equality
The fragmentation of value
Ethics without biology
Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
What is it like to be a bat?
Panpsychism
Subjective and objective
Index
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Mortal Questions

Canto Classics

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