Mortal questions /

"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 pe...

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Autor principal: Nagel, Thomas, 1937-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991, c1979.
Edición:Canto ed.
Colección:Canto (Cambridge University Press)
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300 |a xv, 213 p. ;  |c 22 cm. 
490 1 |a Canto 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. 
505 0 |a Preface -- Death -- The absurd -- Moral luck -- Sexual perversion -- War and massacre -- Ruthlessness in public life -- The policy of preference -- Equality -- The fragmentation of value -- Ethics without biology -- Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness -- What is it like to be a bat? -- Panpsychism -- Subjective and objective. 
520 |a "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." --Descripción del editor. 
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650 0 |a Ethics. 
650 0 |a Medical ethics. 
650 0 |a Mortality. 
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650 7 |a Ética.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Ética médica.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Mortalidad.  |2 UDESA 
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