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.
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