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Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Publishing Limited
Language
English
Pages
254

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Subjects
Life, Death, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Life and death: metaphysics and ethics
2000, Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics (Midwest Studies in Philosophy)
August 1, 2000, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Midwest Studies in Philosophy: New Directions in Philosophy (Midwest Studies in Philosophy)
September 1, 1999, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
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Table of Contents

Metaphysics as prolegomenon to ethics / Joel Kupperman
The meaning of life / John Kekes
In defense of a common ideal for a human life / E.M. Adams
Can the dead really be buried? / Palle Yourgrau
Later death/earlier birth / Christopher Belshaw
Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / Jon Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak
Thick and thin selves: reply to Fischer and Speak / Frederik Kaufman
The termination thesis / Fred Feldman
The evil of death revisited / Harry S. Silverstein
Death and asymmetries in normative appraisals / Ishtiyaque Haji
Appraising death in human life: two modes of valuation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum
"For now have I my death": the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Ackerman
Taking life and the argument from potentiality / Roy W. Perrett
Privatizing death: metaphysical discouragements of ethical thinking / John Woods
Justification for killing noncombatants in war / F.M. Kamm
Capital punishment and the sanctity of life / Philip E. Devine
Aesthetics: the need for a theory / Mary Mothersill

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Includes bibliographical references

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Midwest studies in philosophy -- v. 24

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BD431 .L4165 2000, BD431.L4165 2000

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254 p. ;
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44701136
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1190327
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