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）

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書籍簡介

我們可以確定的一件事是：我們都將死。但是一旦我們接受了這一事實，問題便開始了。在這本發人深省的書中，哲學教授謝莉·卡根（Shelly Kagan）研究了當我們面對死亡的意義時出現的無數問題。我們是否有理由相信不朽靈魂的存在？還是我們應該根據哪個人只是物質對象來接受帳目，僅此而已？我們可以理解倖免於難的想法嗎？如果我死了後，我將不存在，可以真正的死亡是不好的我嗎？永生不理想嗎？害怕死亡合適嗎？自殺有道理嗎？我應該怎樣生活在死亡面前？

這本刺激性和挑釁性的書以非正式和對話的形式提出，挑戰了許多關於死亡的觀點，因為它邀請讀者重新審視人類狀況的中心特徵之一，即我們將死的事實。 

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. 

作者簡介

雪莉·卡根（Shelly Kagan）是耶魯大學克拉克哲學系教授。他是“規範倫理學”和“道德極限”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.