Death and the afterlife
by Scheffler, Samuel, Kolodny, Niko
fromThe Berkeley Tanner Lectures
by Scheffler, Samuel, Kolodny, Niko
fromThe Berkeley Tanner Lectures
"Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for…
"Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for…
This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua psychologist to link the depths of the mind to its surface. Beginning with the proposition that egoism and altruism are a more accurate representation of the bina…
"It is often thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own self-interest. This position is rational egoism. This book is the first extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism."--BOOK JACKET. "The author focuses on Hobbes and Sidgwick. They are, after …
The position of rational egoism centres upon the thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own self-interest. Focusing on the work of Hobbes and Sidgwick, this book is an extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism. They are, after the ancients, the f…
The position of rational egoism centres upon the thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own self-interest. Focusing on the work of Hobbes and Sidgwick, this book is an extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism. They are, after the ancients, the f…
"It is often thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own self-interest. This position is rational egoism. This book is the first extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism."--BOOK JACKET. "The author focuses on Hobbes and Sidgwick. They are, after …
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woma…