The Cambridge Companion To Life And Death

Author : Steven Luper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022878
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death written by Steven Luper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. It will be of interest to all those taking courses on the philosophy of life and death, applied ethics covering abortion, euthanasia, and suicide, and ethics and metaphysics.

Author : Steven Luper
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ISBN 13 : 9781107779433
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death written by Steven Luper and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume meets the increasing interest in a range of philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. What is it to be alive and to die? What is it to be a person? What must time be like if we are to persist? What makes one life better than another? May death or posthumous events harm the dead? The chapters in this volume address these questions, and also discuss topical issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. They explore the interrelation between the metaphysics, significance, and ethics of life and death, and they discuss the moral significance of killing both people and animals, and the extent to which death harms them. The volume is for all those studying the philosophy of life and death, for readers taking applied ethics courses, and for those studying ethics and metaphysics more generally.

Author : Maria DiBattista
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028108
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography written by Maria DiBattista and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical overview of autobiography from the works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau to the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras.

Author : Steven Luper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108983960
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Objects written by Steven Luper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653701
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

Author : Chattopadhyaya, D. P.
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 8131743004
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Life and Death written by Chattopadhyaya, D. P. and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love, Life and Death, eminent philosopher and scholar D.P. Chattopadhyaya asks anew the fundamental question: what is it to live, love and die? Exploring the lives, writings and actions of some of the world's most influential poets, philosophers and scientists from Copernicus to Keats and from Sankara to Aurobindo, he wades through the stream of human consciousness and encounters traces of cultural universality.

Author : Adam Kamesar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521860903
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Philo written by Adam Kamesar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Philo presents an accessible account of Philo of Alexandria and his works, which constitute an essential source for the study of the Judaism of the turn of the eras, the rise of Christianity, and the history of Greek philosophy. The volume surveys key areas of Philonic studies and gives readers a sense of the current state of scholarship.

Author : Anthony David Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521421270
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot written by Anthony David Moody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T. S. Eliot.

Author : George M. Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188862X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More written by George M. Logan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the life and times of Thomas More, including in-depth studies of his major written works.

Author : Christine Overall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019065810X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pets and People written by Christine Overall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal ethics is generating growing interest both within academia and outside it. This book focuses on ethical issues connected to animals who play an extremely important role in human lives: companion animals ("pets"), with a special emphasis on dogs and cats, the animals most often chosen as pets. Companion animals are both vulnerable to and dependent upon us. What responsibilities do we owe to them, especially since we have the power and authority to make literal life-and-death decisions about them? What kinds of relationships should we have with our companion animals? And what might we learn from cats and dogs about the nature and limits of our own morality? The contributors write from a variety of philosophical perspectives, including utilitarianism, care ethics, feminist ethics, phenomenology, and the genealogy of ideas. The eighteen chapters are divided into two sections, to provide a general background to ethical debate about companion animals, followed by a focus on a number of crucial aspects of human relationships to companion animals. The first section discusses the nature of our relationships to companion animals, the foundations of our moral responsibilities to companion animals, what our relationships with companion animals teach us, and whether animals themselves can act ethically. The second part explores some specific ethical issues related to crucial aspects of companion animals' lives--breeding, reproduction, sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia.