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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      30 September 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511780028
      9780521769327
      9780521171199
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780028
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 270 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ethics, Philosophy
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    This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is 'nothing' to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality.

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    ‘I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the philosophical discussion of death or simply an interest in the meaning of his or her own death.’

    John P. Lizza Source: Mind

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