Well-being and death
"Ben Bradley defends the following views: pleasure, rather than achievement or the satisfaction of desire, is what makes life go well; death is generally bad for its victim, in virtue of depriving the victim of more of a good life; death is bad for its victim at times after death, in particular...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Clarendon Press u.a.
2009
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: |
Life
> Death
> Dood
> Kwaliteit van het bestaan
> Attitude to Death
> Sterben
> Tod
> Lebensphilosophie
> Leben
> Philosophie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Ben Bradley defends the following views: pleasure, rather than achievement or the satisfaction of desire, is what makes life go well; death is generally bad for its victim, in virtue of depriving the victim of more of a good life; death is bad for its victim at times after death, in particular at all those times at which the victim would have been living well; death is worse the earlier it occurs, and hence it is worse to die as an infant than as an adult; death is usually bad for animals and fetuses, in just the same way it is bad for adult humans; things that happen after someone has died cannot harm that person; the only sensible way to make death less bad is to live so long that no more good life is possible."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXI, 198 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780199557967 978-0-19-955796-7 |