The Cambridge companion to life and death / edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University. [electronic...
The Cambridge companion to life and death / edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University. [electronic...
The Cambridge companion to life and death / edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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BOOK
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xi, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content type
text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction / Steven Luper -- The nature of life / Mark A Bedau -- The nature of people / Eric T. Olson -- Persistence and time / Katherine Hawley -- The malleability of identity / Marya Schechtman -- The nature of human death / David Degrazia -- Assess lives / Noah Lemos -- On the length of a good...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
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...
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The Cambridge companion to life and death / edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions online.
BOOK
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-347) and index.
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English
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1-139-14912-1
1-107-77693-7
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128
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991023962544902626
