Mortal Questions
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.
Customer Reviews
Mortal Questions
Couldn't resist adding my 2 cents. The only other review is by some knucklehead, which is really unjust!Nagel's book is a masterful interpretation of some of the great problems of philosophy, explained in terms that anyone (um, well, maybe not the other reviewer) can understand. His style is crystalline in its clarity.
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Blah blah blah is bad. But blah blah blah is sometimes good. But if a good person does blah blah blah it could be good, but it could be bad. But is blah really bad if the blah is good, and bad? One could say that the utilitarianism blah is a circular argument that will eventually lead to my next paragraph on an absolutism view on blah, which will be both good... and bad.
The End.