Death There is one thing we can be sure of we are all going to die But once we accept that fact the questions begin In this thought provoking book philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad que

There is one thing we can be sure of we are all going to die But once we accept that fact, the questions begin In this thought provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls Or should we accept an account according to whThere is one thing we can be sure of we are all going to die But once we accept that fact, the questions begin In this thought provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls Or should we accept an account according to which people are just material objects, nothing Can we make sense of the idea of surviving the death of one s body If I won t exist after I die, can death truly be bad for me Would immortality be desirable Is fear of death appropriate Is suicide ever justified How should I live in the face of death Written in an informal and conversational style, this stimulating and provocative book challenges many widely held views about death, as it invites the reader to take a fresh look at one of the central features of the human condition the fact that we will die.
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Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale After receiving his B.A from Wesleyan University in 1976, and his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1982, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Yale in 1995 He is the author of the textbook Normative Ethics, which systematically reviews alternative positions concerning the basic rules of morality and their possible foundations, and The Limits of Morality, which challenges two of the most widely shared beliefs about the requirements of morality He is currently at work on The Geometry of Desert.