Mortal questions

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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 issu…

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Full title :Mortal questions / Thomas Nagel.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1979.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1979.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 213 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521223601, 9780521223607, 0521294606, 9780521294607, 9780521406765, 0521406765, 9781139893947, 1139893947, 9781107604711, 1107604710
oclc:ocm04135927
LC Classification:BD431
Dewey Decimal:170

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.