About this title: Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521406765ISBN:0521406765
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, USA
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780521294607ISBN:0521294606
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521406765ISBN:0521406765
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521406765ISBN:0521406765
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521406765ISBN:0521406765
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780521294607ISBN:0521294606
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 02/05/1991
ISBN-13:9780521406765ISBN:0521406765
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1979-02-28
ISBN-13:9780521294607ISBN:0521294606
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"Fourteen essays in this book tie together the question of how philosophy applies in everyday life. Nagel's writing drags a bit in places, and not all the essays are of equal interest. The personal nature of the inquiry is the book's main draw and the best reason for reading it. The most helpful approach to this kind of book is to list its topics and give my ratings, as follows:
TOPIC:
Death - A rather short discussion asking why death is thought of as such a bad event. ****
Absurdity - Excellent topic with good insights *****
Sexual Perversion -- A logically poor survey of sexual attitudes, but a fascinating look at how philosophy doubly abstracts the subject from its instinctive and psychological nature. ***
War - Dated; of little interest to me. *
Public Life - Less here than meets the eye **
Affirmative Action - Dated look at a trendy but exhausted subject. *
Equality - Excellent comparison of individual rights, utilitarianism and egalitarianism *****
Fragmentation of Value - Must all our values derive from one source? *****
Ethics and Biology - Short and uninteresting *
Unity of Consciousness - Outdated by modern brain research *
On Being a Bat - Excellent discussion of subjective experience *****
Panpsychism - Channeling Spinoza ****
Subjective and Objective - Very interesting. ****
The discussions are a little more technical than others I've seen, and the author surveys many concepts. I recommend the book for people having a general interest in philosophy and at least a basic familiarity with its terms."
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