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Author Schumacher, Bernard N., author.
Uniform Title Confrontations avec la mort. English
Title Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy / Bernard N. Schumacher ; translated by Michael J. Miller.
Alternative Title Death & Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.



Descript 1 online resource (257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction; 2. Biological death; 3. So-called 'personal death'; 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death; 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death; 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic; 7. Conclusion; Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality; 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death; 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge?; 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre; 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other; 13. Death as the object of experience; Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us?: 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers; 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject; 16. Death: an evil of privation; Conclusion.
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ISBN 9780511780028 (ebook)
9780521769327 (hardback)
9780521171199 (paperback)
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Author Schumacher, Bernard N., author.
Subject Death.
Alt author Miller, Michael J. (Translator)
Alternative Title Death & Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy
Descript 1 online resource (257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction; 2. Biological death; 3. So-called 'personal death'; 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death; 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death; 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic; 7. Conclusion; Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality; 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death; 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge?; 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre; 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other; 13. Death as the object of experience; Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us?: 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers; 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject; 16. Death: an evil of privation; Conclusion.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780511780028 (ebook)
9780521769327 (hardback)
9780521171199 (paperback)
Author Schumacher, Bernard N., author.
Subject Death.
Alt author Miller, Michael J. (Translator)
Alternative Title Death & Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy

Subject Death.
Descript 1 online resource (257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction; 2. Biological death; 3. So-called 'personal death'; 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death; 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death; 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic; 7. Conclusion; Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality; 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death; 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge?; 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre; 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other; 13. Death as the object of experience; Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us?: 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers; 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject; 16. Death: an evil of privation; Conclusion.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Miller, Michael J. (Translator)
ISBN 9780511780028 (ebook)
9780521769327 (hardback)
9780521171199 (paperback)

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