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This standard work in thanatology is updated with ten essays new to the second edition, and features a new introduction by Donnelly. The collection addresses certain basic issues inherent in a philosophy of death.
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Copyright 1978, 1994 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved. LC 94-27750 ISBN 0-8232-1581-4 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8232-1582-2 (paperback) First edition 1978 Second edition 1994
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Language, metaphysics, and death / edited by John Donnelly. 2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8232-1581-4 (hard). ISBN 0-8232-1582-2 (pbk.) 1. Death. 2. Immortality (Philosophy) I. Donnelly, John, 1941- . BD444.L377 1994 128'.5dc2094-27750 CIP
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Page v
Contents
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
1. Death
Thomas Nagel
2
2. On Death and Human Existence
James M. Cameron
30
3. Existentialism and Death
Paul Edwards
43
4. Existentialism and the Fear of Dying
Michael A. Slote
80
5. Fearing Death
Amlie Oksenberg Rorty
102
6. How To Be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus
Stephen E. Rosenbaum
117
7. Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death
Fred Feldman
132
8. The Misfortunate Dead: A Problem for Materialism
John Donnelly
153
9. The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Bernard Williams
170
10. De Anima
Richard Taylor
188
11. On the Observability of the Self
Roderick M. Chisholm
195
12. Biology and the Soul
John Hick
211
13. My Death
A. J. Ayer
226
14. The Faces of Immortality
Kai Nielsen
237
15. Do We Need Immortality?
Grace M. Jantzen
265
16. Survival and the Idea of Another World
H. H. Price
278
17. Eschatological Enquiry
John Donnelly
302
Page vi
18. Traditional Christian Belief in the Resurrection of the Body
Stephen T. Davis
320
19. Survival of Bodily Death: A Question of Values
Raymond Martin
344
20. Mysticism and the Paradox of Survival
John J. Clarke
367
Select Bibliography
383
Page vii
Preface
THIS SECOND EDITION of Language, Metaphysics, and Death deletes eight essays from the first edition, retains nine, and adds eleven. The authors of the twenty essays analyze various fundamental themes inherent in a metaphysics of thanatology, involving the meaning and nature of death and dying and the prospects for survival and postmortem existence.
Despite Epicurus' admonition in his Letter to Menoeceus that we become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us, most of us are skeptical about his caveat and even a few of us, in his words, crave for immortality. The volume's contributors are at one with Plato, who reminds us in the
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