Preface; Sources; 1. Death; 2. The absurd; 3. Moral luck; 4. Sexual perversion; 5. War and massacre; 6. Ruthlessness in public life; 7. The policy of preference; 8. Equality; 9. The fragmentation of value; 10. Ethics without biology; 11. Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness; 12. What is it like to be a bat?; 13. Panpsychism; 14. Subjective and objective; Index.
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life.
???... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have
written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult
and serious problems.??? P. F. Strawson, New York Review of
Books
???These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real
sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical
enquiry.??? R. A. Duff, The Literary Review
???Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness
of style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if
anyone can seize and keep the general reader??'s attention, it must
be Thomas Nagel with this book.??? New Statesman
'... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written
so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and
serious problems.' P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books
'These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real
sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.'
R. A. Duff, The Literary Review
'Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of
style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if
anyone can seize and keep the general reader's attention, it must
be Thomas Nagel with this book.' New Statesman
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