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Sep 18, 2013 · The Dead (1917) by Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics Short story Collection opensource Language ... PDF download. download 1 file
PART I. When Do We Die? 1 Defining Death: A Report on the Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death (excerpt) President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 2 Defining Death in a Technological World: Why Brain Death Is Death John P. Lizza.
comments on the problem of choosing an acceptable definition of death to day. I The first definition reflects one everyday use of the word "death." (1) Death is the absence of life. This definition offers very little guidance because its meaning depends on the meaning of "life," and as will be shown in Section II, this merely shifts the
Feb 12, 2022 · Abstract. I offer an overview of the book, Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life , summarizing the main issues, arguments, and conclusions (Fischer 2020). I also present some new ideas and ...
- Meaning in Life
- Epicurean Challenges
- The No-Experience Problem
- The Deprivation Theory of Death’s Badness and Fear of Death
- The Immortality Curmudgeons and their Concerns
- Immortality in an Afterlife
- Near-Death Experiences: Supernaturalism
- When?
- Why Universality of Content?
- Near-Death Experiences, Naturalism, and Meaning
We typically (although not always) take premature death to be bad for the individual who dies—especially for those beings (like us) capable of living meaningful lives. Indeed, premature death is sometimes thought to be a tragedy for the deceased. (I will return to these assumptions of “common sense” in discussing death’s putative badness.) There is...
The Epicurean contends that death cannot be a bad thing for the individual who dies, because there is no individual left to be the subject of this purported misfortune. The point that there is no individual left implies that the status of being dead (as opposed to the process of dying) involves no unpleasant experiences on the part of the indi-vidu...
believe that various things can be bad for an individual, even though she doesn’t have negative experiences as a result: experience is not all there is to harm or badness (just as it is not all there is to goodness). I thus reject “experiential ethics,” and, more generally, the view that all kinds of value can be reduced to, or defined in terms of,...
Why is death bad for the individual who dies, when it is indeed bad? An influen-tial view is the deprivation account of death’s badness, according to which (roughly speaking) death deprives the deceased of goods she would have had, but for her early death. These goods would have made that life (in which she lives longer) better than the life she ac...
Daring to fire some salvos in the “Forever” Wars, I consider a panoply of arguments ofered by the Immortality Curmudgeons, who are certainly in the majority among philosophers (historically and now). A large majority of philosophers (especially in contemporary discussions) are dreary spoil-sports about immortality! Such argu-ments include the worry...
There are diferent routes to immortality: secular and religious. I argue that many of the same issues arise as to the potential desirability (and even coherence) of secular and religious immortality. One might say that Mark Twain ([original date unavailable]/1970) is to skepticism about the desirability of religious immortality (in some sort of “af...
Many, including (somewhat) scholarly writers on the subject, think that near-death experiences (NDEs) are a portal into immortality in the religious sense. They adopt the doctrine of “supernaturalism about NDEs,” according to which our minds are nonphysical (the doctrine of dualism—typically substance dualism), separate from our bodies in NDEs, and...
It is a staple of the NDE literature that NDEs take place when the brain is “ofline” in the sense in which it could support consciousness (as opposed to the biological “housekeeping” tasks). This “NDE Timing Problem” plays a big role here, as in the discussion of the time of death’s badness. It is however totally unwarranted to conclude from the sc...
NDEs have similar content across cultures and times, although the specific details are diferent and to some extent culturally determined. They typically contain some (but not necessarily all) of the following: an out-of-body experience, travel toward another (otherworldy) realm guided by deceased loved ones and/or religious figures, vivid colors an...
For the supernaturalist, the story of NDEs is a story of separation from one’s body and travel toward (and sometimes into) an otherworldly realm. The stories purport-edly show, as in the title of a prominent book, that “heaven is for real.” They ofer a “proof of heaven.” These interpretations select only parts of the reported contents of most NDEs,...
Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,— act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead! Seeing, shall take heart again. Learn to labor and to wait. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven….
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makes death an object to be feared.Death is conceived as an enemy or an “evil” that calls for repression, and literature is litt. red with such unfounded renditions. Plato’s recounting of Socrates’ defense in his Apology challenges. apprehend to be the greatest evil,presumably, to affi.
