Death (The Open Yale Courses Series)

基本信息

Edited by：Shelly Kagan

Publisher：Yale University Press

Published：15 May 2012

Language：English

Format Paperback：392 pages

ISBN-10 : 0300180845

ISBN-13 : 978-0300180848

Weight：510 g

Dimensions：155.448 x 24.892 x 234.95（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

我们可以确定的一件事是：我们都将死。但是一旦我们接受了这一事实，问题便开始了。在这本发人深省的书中，哲学教授谢莉·卡根（Shelly Kagan）研究了当我们面对死亡的意义时出现的无数问题。我们是否有理由相信不朽灵魂的存在？还是我们应该根据哪个人只是物质对象来接受帐目，仅此而已？我们可以理解幸免于难的想法吗？如果我死了后，我将不存在，可以真正的死亡是不好的我吗？永生不理想吗？害怕死亡合适吗？自杀有道理吗？我应该怎样生活在死亡面前？

这本刺激性和挑衅性的书以非正式和对话的形式提出，挑战了许多关于死亡的观点，因为它邀请读者重新审视人类状况的中心特征之一，即我们将死的事实。 

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Or should we accept an account according to which people are just material objects, nothing more? Can we make sense of the idea of surviving the death of one’s body? If I won’t exist after I die, can death truly be bad for me? Would immortality be desirable? Is fear of death appropriate? Is suicide ever justified? How should I live in the face of death?

Written in an informal and conversational style, this stimulating and provocative book challenges many widely held views about death, as it invites the reader to take a fresh look at one of the central features of the human condition—the fact that we will die. 

作者简介

雪莉·卡根（Shelly Kagan）是耶鲁大学克拉克哲学系教授。他是“规范伦理学”和“道德极限”的作者。他住在康涅狄格州哈姆登市。

Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University. He is the author of Normative Ethics and The Limits of Morality. He lives in Hamden, CT.