The Cambridge Companion To Life And Death
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Author | : Steven Luper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1107022878 |
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This volume discusses the philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. It will be of interest to all those taking courses on the philosophy of life and death, applied ethics covering abortion, euthanasia, and suicide, and ethics and metaphysics.
Author | : Steven Luper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9781107779433 |
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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 the dead? The chapters in this volume address these questions, and also discuss topical issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. They explore the interrelation between the metaphysics, significance, and ethics of life and death, and they discuss the moral significance of killing both people and animals, and the extent to which death harms them. The volume is for all those studying the philosophy of life and death, for readers taking applied ethics courses, and for those studying ethics and metaphysics more generally.
Author | : Adam Kamesar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139827839 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Philo Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly older contemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source for the study of Judaism and the rise of Christianity. They are also of extreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of the time and help to explain the onset of new forms of spirituality that would dominate the following centuries. This handbook presents an account of Philo's achievements. It contains a profile of his life and times, a systematic overview of his many writings, and survey chapters of the key features of his thought, as seen from the perspectives of Judaism and Greek philosophy. The volume concludes with a section devoted to Philo's influence and significance. Composed by an international team of experts, The Cambridge Companion to Philo gives readers a sense of the state of scholarship and provides depth of vision in key areas of Philonic studies.
Author | : Steven Luper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108983960 |
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How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.
Author | : Chattopadhyaya, D. P. |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Consciousness |
ISBN | : 8131743004 |
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In Love, Life and Death, eminent philosopher and scholar D.P. Chattopadhyaya asks anew the fundamental question: what is it to live, love and die? Exploring the lives, writings and actions of some of the world's most influential poets, philosophers and scientists from Copernicus to Keats and from Sankara to Aurobindo, he wades through the stream of human consciousness and encounters traces of cultural universality.
Author | : Maria DiBattista |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107028108 |
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A historical overview of autobiography from the works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau to the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras.
Author | : John Williamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 113982659X |
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This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.
Author | : Donna Tussing Orwin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2002-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139826468 |
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Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy's writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy's life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author | : Anthony David Moody |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780521421270 |
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An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T. S. Eliot.
Author | : C. E. W. Steel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521509939 |
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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.