Description
Product ID: | 9781107604711 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Canto Classics |
Title: | Mortal Questions |
Authors: | Author: Thomas Nagel |
Page Count: | 226 |
Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-03-26 |