Death [[electronic resource] /] / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 128/.5 |
Collana | The open Yale courses series |
Soggetto topico |
Death
Ontology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-57125-X
9786613600851 0-300-18342-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking about Death -- 2. Dualism versus Physicalism -- 3. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul -- 4. Descartes' Argument -- 5. Plato on the Immortality of the Soul -- 6. Personal Identity -- 7. Choosing between the Theories -- 8. The Nature of Death -- 9. Two Surprising Claims about Death -- 10. The Badness of Death -- 11. Immortality -- 12. The Value of Life -- 13. Other Aspects of Death -- 14. Living in the Face of Death -- 15. Suicide -- 16. Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
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Death [[electronic resource] /] / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 128/.5 |
Collana | The open Yale courses series |
Soggetto topico |
Death
Ontology |
ISBN |
1-280-57125-X
9786613600851 0-300-18342-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking about Death -- 2. Dualism versus Physicalism -- 3. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul -- 4. Descartes' Argument -- 5. Plato on the Immortality of the Soul -- 6. Personal Identity -- 7. Choosing between the Theories -- 8. The Nature of Death -- 9. Two Surprising Claims about Death -- 10. The Badness of Death -- 11. Immortality -- 12. The Value of Life -- 13. Other Aspects of Death -- 14. Living in the Face of Death -- 15. Suicide -- 16. Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790120303321 |
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Death / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 128/.5 |
Collana | The open Yale courses series |
Soggetto topico |
Death
Ontology |
ISBN |
1-280-57125-X
9786613600851 0-300-18342-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking about Death -- 2. Dualism versus Physicalism -- 3. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul -- 4. Descartes' Argument -- 5. Plato on the Immortality of the Soul -- 6. Personal Identity -- 7. Choosing between the Theories -- 8. The Nature of Death -- 9. Two Surprising Claims about Death -- 10. The Badness of Death -- 11. Immortality -- 12. The Value of Life -- 13. Other Aspects of Death -- 14. Living in the Face of Death -- 15. Suicide -- 16. Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806136803321 |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012 | ||
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The geometry of desert / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (675 p.) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Merit (Ethics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-023372-9
0-19-989560-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note to the Reader""; ""1. MORAL DESERT""; ""1.1 A Familiar Thought""; ""1.2 Some Familiar Questions""; ""1.3 Skepticism""; ""1.4 Intrinsic Value""; ""1.5 Unfamiliar Questions""; ""PART I: NONCOMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""2. FAULT FORFEITS FIRST""; ""2.1 The Basic View""; ""2.2 Pluralism""; ""2.3 Extending the Account""; ""2.4 Discount Rates and Multipliers""; ""3. DESERT GRAPHS""; ""3.1 Graphs""; ""3.2 Varying Slopes""; ""3.3 Rotation""; ""3.4 Peaks""; ""3.5 Multiple Peaks""; ""3.6 Comparing Sides""; ""3.7 Bell Motion""
""3.8 The Sym Mountain""""3.9 Shift""; ""4. SKYLINES""; ""4.1 The Occupation of the X Axis""; ""4.2 Constant Skylines""; ""4.3 The V Shaped Skyline""; ""4.4 Varieties of Desert""; ""4.5 Taking Stock""; ""PART II: COMPLICATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES""; ""5. OTHER SHAPES""; ""5.1 Plateaus""; ""5.2 Retributivism and Plateaus""; ""5.3 Simple Straight Lines""; ""5.4 Bent Lines""; ""5.5 Curved Desert""; ""5.6 Detailing Curved Desert""; ""5.7 Curved Plateaus""; ""6. PLACING PEAKS""; ""6.1 The Mapping Function""; ""6.2 Curved Mapping Functions""; ""6.3 Revisiting the Sym Mountain"" ""6.4 Revisiting the V Shaped Skyline""""6.5 Further Constraints on the Skyline""; ""6.6 The Logical Limits of Bell Motion""; ""6.7 Disaggregation""; ""PART III: COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""7. THE RATIO VIEW""; ""7.1 The Idea of Comparative Desert""; ""7.2 Problems for the Ratio View""; ""7.3 Optimism""; ""7.4 The Impossibility Defense""; ""7.5 Absolute Zero""; ""8. SIMILAR OFFENSE""; ""8.1 The Y Gap View""; ""8.2 Reconsidering the Cases""; ""8.3 More on the Y Gap Constraint""; ""8.4 Percentages""; ""8.5 A Fourth View""; ""9. GRAPHING COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""9.1 Relative Advantage"" ""9.2 Two Problems""""9.3 Graphing the X Gap View""; ""9.4 Motion Along the Y Axis""; ""9.5 Graphing the Y Gap View""; ""10. VARIATION""; ""10.1 Comparative Bell Motion""; ""10.2 Comparative Skylines""; ""10.3 Moral Significance Again""; ""10.4 Two More Possibilities""; ""10.5 One Size Fits All""; ""10.6 Sliding Up""; ""11. GROUPS""; ""11.1 Two Approaches""; ""11.2 Size""; ""11.3 Another Look""; ""11.4 Adjusting the Graphs""; ""11.5 Variable Steepness Reconsidered""; ""PART IV: DESERT""; ""12. DESERT TAKEN AS A WHOLE""; ""12.1 Partial Values""; ""12.2 Open Questions"" ""12.3 Rough Comparability""""12.4 Another Series""; ""12.5 Other Values""; ""13. RESERVATIONS""; ""13.1 Deontology""; ""13.2 Methodology""; ""13.3 Ideology""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463112203321 |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
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The geometry of desert / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (675 p.) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Merit (Ethics) |
ISBN |
0-19-023372-9
0-19-989560-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note to the Reader""; ""1. MORAL DESERT""; ""1.1 A Familiar Thought""; ""1.2 Some Familiar Questions""; ""1.3 Skepticism""; ""1.4 Intrinsic Value""; ""1.5 Unfamiliar Questions""; ""PART I: NONCOMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""2. FAULT FORFEITS FIRST""; ""2.1 The Basic View""; ""2.2 Pluralism""; ""2.3 Extending the Account""; ""2.4 Discount Rates and Multipliers""; ""3. DESERT GRAPHS""; ""3.1 Graphs""; ""3.2 Varying Slopes""; ""3.3 Rotation""; ""3.4 Peaks""; ""3.5 Multiple Peaks""; ""3.6 Comparing Sides""; ""3.7 Bell Motion""
""3.8 The Sym Mountain""""3.9 Shift""; ""4. SKYLINES""; ""4.1 The Occupation of the X Axis""; ""4.2 Constant Skylines""; ""4.3 The V Shaped Skyline""; ""4.4 Varieties of Desert""; ""4.5 Taking Stock""; ""PART II: COMPLICATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES""; ""5. OTHER SHAPES""; ""5.1 Plateaus""; ""5.2 Retributivism and Plateaus""; ""5.3 Simple Straight Lines""; ""5.4 Bent Lines""; ""5.5 Curved Desert""; ""5.6 Detailing Curved Desert""; ""5.7 Curved Plateaus""; ""6. PLACING PEAKS""; ""6.1 The Mapping Function""; ""6.2 Curved Mapping Functions""; ""6.3 Revisiting the Sym Mountain"" ""6.4 Revisiting the V Shaped Skyline""""6.5 Further Constraints on the Skyline""; ""6.6 The Logical Limits of Bell Motion""; ""6.7 Disaggregation""; ""PART III: COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""7. THE RATIO VIEW""; ""7.1 The Idea of Comparative Desert""; ""7.2 Problems for the Ratio View""; ""7.3 Optimism""; ""7.4 The Impossibility Defense""; ""7.5 Absolute Zero""; ""8. SIMILAR OFFENSE""; ""8.1 The Y Gap View""; ""8.2 Reconsidering the Cases""; ""8.3 More on the Y Gap Constraint""; ""8.4 Percentages""; ""8.5 A Fourth View""; ""9. GRAPHING COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""9.1 Relative Advantage"" ""9.2 Two Problems""""9.3 Graphing the X Gap View""; ""9.4 Motion Along the Y Axis""; ""9.5 Graphing the Y Gap View""; ""10. VARIATION""; ""10.1 Comparative Bell Motion""; ""10.2 Comparative Skylines""; ""10.3 Moral Significance Again""; ""10.4 Two More Possibilities""; ""10.5 One Size Fits All""; ""10.6 Sliding Up""; ""11. GROUPS""; ""11.1 Two Approaches""; ""11.2 Size""; ""11.3 Another Look""; ""11.4 Adjusting the Graphs""; ""11.5 Variable Steepness Reconsidered""; ""PART IV: DESERT""; ""12. DESERT TAKEN AS A WHOLE""; ""12.1 Partial Values""; ""12.2 Open Questions"" ""12.3 Rough Comparability""""12.4 Another Series""; ""12.5 Other Values""; ""13. RESERVATIONS""; ""13.1 Deontology""; ""13.2 Methodology""; ""13.3 Ideology""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786262303321 |
Kagan Shelly
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
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The geometry of desert / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (675 p.) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Merit (Ethics) |
ISBN |
0-19-023372-9
0-19-989560-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note to the Reader""; ""1. MORAL DESERT""; ""1.1 A Familiar Thought""; ""1.2 Some Familiar Questions""; ""1.3 Skepticism""; ""1.4 Intrinsic Value""; ""1.5 Unfamiliar Questions""; ""PART I: NONCOMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""2. FAULT FORFEITS FIRST""; ""2.1 The Basic View""; ""2.2 Pluralism""; ""2.3 Extending the Account""; ""2.4 Discount Rates and Multipliers""; ""3. DESERT GRAPHS""; ""3.1 Graphs""; ""3.2 Varying Slopes""; ""3.3 Rotation""; ""3.4 Peaks""; ""3.5 Multiple Peaks""; ""3.6 Comparing Sides""; ""3.7 Bell Motion""
""3.8 The Sym Mountain""""3.9 Shift""; ""4. SKYLINES""; ""4.1 The Occupation of the X Axis""; ""4.2 Constant Skylines""; ""4.3 The V Shaped Skyline""; ""4.4 Varieties of Desert""; ""4.5 Taking Stock""; ""PART II: COMPLICATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES""; ""5. OTHER SHAPES""; ""5.1 Plateaus""; ""5.2 Retributivism and Plateaus""; ""5.3 Simple Straight Lines""; ""5.4 Bent Lines""; ""5.5 Curved Desert""; ""5.6 Detailing Curved Desert""; ""5.7 Curved Plateaus""; ""6. PLACING PEAKS""; ""6.1 The Mapping Function""; ""6.2 Curved Mapping Functions""; ""6.3 Revisiting the Sym Mountain"" ""6.4 Revisiting the V Shaped Skyline""""6.5 Further Constraints on the Skyline""; ""6.6 The Logical Limits of Bell Motion""; ""6.7 Disaggregation""; ""PART III: COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""7. THE RATIO VIEW""; ""7.1 The Idea of Comparative Desert""; ""7.2 Problems for the Ratio View""; ""7.3 Optimism""; ""7.4 The Impossibility Defense""; ""7.5 Absolute Zero""; ""8. SIMILAR OFFENSE""; ""8.1 The Y Gap View""; ""8.2 Reconsidering the Cases""; ""8.3 More on the Y Gap Constraint""; ""8.4 Percentages""; ""8.5 A Fourth View""; ""9. GRAPHING COMPARATIVE DESERT""; ""9.1 Relative Advantage"" ""9.2 Two Problems""""9.3 Graphing the X Gap View""; ""9.4 Motion Along the Y Axis""; ""9.5 Graphing the Y Gap View""; ""10. VARIATION""; ""10.1 Comparative Bell Motion""; ""10.2 Comparative Skylines""; ""10.3 Moral Significance Again""; ""10.4 Two More Possibilities""; ""10.5 One Size Fits All""; ""10.6 Sliding Up""; ""11. GROUPS""; ""11.1 Two Approaches""; ""11.2 Size""; ""11.3 Another Look""; ""11.4 Adjusting the Graphs""; ""11.5 Variable Steepness Reconsidered""; ""PART IV: DESERT""; ""12. DESERT TAKEN AS A WHOLE""; ""12.1 Partial Values""; ""12.2 Open Questions"" ""12.3 Rough Comparability""""12.4 Another Series""; ""12.5 Other Values""; ""13. RESERVATIONS""; ""13.1 Deontology""; ""13.2 Methodology""; ""13.3 Ideology""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y"" |
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The limits of morality [[electronic resource] /] / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii,415p.) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Collana | Oxford ethics series |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Values |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-98921-5
9786611989217 0-19-152008-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454713403321 |
Kagan Shelly
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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The limits of morality / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Collana | Oxford ethics series |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Values |
ISBN |
1-281-98921-5
9786611989217 0-19-152008-X 9780191597848 9780198249139 9780198239161 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778100603321 |
Kagan Shelly
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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The limits of morality / / Shelly Kagan |
Autore | Kagan Shelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) |
Disciplina | 170 |
Collana | Oxford ethics series |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Values |
ISBN |
1-281-98921-5
9786611989217 0-19-152008-X 9780191597848 9780198249139 9780198239161 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809826903321 |
Kagan Shelly
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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