Life and Death

Life and Death brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways—metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary—in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about life and death. North American rights only.

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Edited, with Introduction, by Carl Levenson and Jonathan Westphal

1994 - 192 pp.

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Life and Death brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways—metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary—in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about life and death.

 

Contents:

  • Introduction.
  • Plato, from Euthydemus and Phaedo
  • Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics
  • Augustine, from Confessions
  • Dionysius the Aeropagite, from The Divine Names
  • Aquinas, from Summa Contra Gentiles
  • Nietzsche, from The Gay Science
  • Sartre, from Nausea
  • Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus, and Nupitals
  • de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
  • Nagel, “The Absurd” from The Journal of Philosophy
  • Westphal & Cherry, “Is Life Absurd?”
  • Hare, “Nothing Matters”
  • Wisdom, from Paradox and Discovery
  • Ayer, “The Meaning of Life”
  • Schlick, “On the Meaning of Life” from Philosophical Papers
  • Wittgenstein, from Notebooks 1914-1916
  • Tolstoy, from Life
  • Weil, from Gravity and Grace
  • Shakespeare, from Cymbeline
  • Suggested Further Readings