Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies? - J. Li

Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies?

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5973-4 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt
lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies. This problem is an ancient one which was raised long ago by the early Greek philosopher Epicurus, who notoriously argued that death is at no time a harm to its 'victim' because before death there is no harrn and after death there is no victim. Epicurus's conclusion is conspicuously at odds with our prereflective­ and in most cases our post-reflective-intuitions, and numerous strategies have therefore been proposed to refute or avoid the Epicurean conclusion that death cannot be an evil after all. How then are we to account for our intuition that death is not just an evil, but perhaps the worst evil: that may befall us? This is the key issue that Or Li addresses. Or Li's book explores various alternative approaches to the complex and difficult issues surrounding Epicurus's notorious argument and provides a defence ofthe intuitively plausible conclusion that death can indeed be a harm to the person who dies. This challenge to Epicurus's claim that death is never a harm to the person who dies is developed by way of a detailed exploration of the issues raised not only by Epicurus, but also by his many successors, who have responded variously to the challenging issues which Epicurus raised.

1. The Epicurean Argument.- 2. The Desire-thwarting Theory.- 3. The Deprivation Theory.- 4. The Interest-Impairment Theory.- 5. The Lucretian Symmetry Argument.- Conclusion.- Notes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.12.2010
Reihe/Serie Philosophy and Medicine ; 73
Zusatzinfo X, 198 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 90-481-5973-3 / 9048159733
ISBN-13 978-90-481-5973-4 / 9789048159734
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