Death: Philosophical Soundings - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780812693300

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by Herbert Fingarette (Author)

Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation.

He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth. Fingarette goes on to discuss living a future without end and living a present without bounds. The author offers no facile consolation, but he identifies the true root of fear of death, and explains how the meaning of death can be reconceived.

Number of Pages: 184

Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.8 x 6.06 IN

Publication Date: February 05, 1999

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