Life and Death

Name: Life and Death
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ISBN: 9780872202085

ISBN-10: 0872202089

ISBN-13: 9780872202085

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carl Levenson, Jonathan Westphal

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Life and Death brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways--metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary--in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about life and death.

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 0.35" wide x 8.46" long x 5.47" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments



"On the Aim of Life," from the Euthydemus, and "On the Practice of Death," from the Phaedo




From the Nicomachean Ethics




"I Saw Only Death," from the Confessions




"On Life," from The Divine Names




"That All Things Are Directed to One End, Which Is God," from the Summa contra Gentiles




"The Madman" and "Eternal Recurrence" from The Gay Science




"Mysticism of the Absurd," from Nausea




"Absurdity Is the Divorce between Reason and the World," from The Myth of Sisyphus and Nuptials




"Woman and the Meaning of Life," from The Second Sex




"The Absurd," from The Journal of Philosophy




"Is Life Absurd?"




"Nothing Matters"




"The Meanings of the Questions of Life," from Paradox and Discovery




"The Meaning of Life"




"On the Meaning of Life," from Philosophical Papers




"The Meaning of Life... We Can Call God," from Notebooks, 1914-1916




"The Fundamental Contradiction of Human Life" and "The Fear of Death Is Only a Confession of the Unsolved Contradiction of Life," from Life




"Detachment," from Gravity and Grace




"Fear No More...." from Cymbeline



Some Suggested Further Reading


Index