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The Human Predicament A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Hardcover • 2017 • English • 1. edition

The Human Predicament A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By David Benatar

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About the book

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meaning of life. When they have tackled the big questions, they have tended, like popular writers, to offer comforting, optimi...Show more

Topics in philosophy
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
Ethics and moral philosophy

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ISBN

9780190633813

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Human Predicament A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Format

Hardcover

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