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The human predicament : a candid guide to life's biggest questions
Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths by acts of suicide? Many people are tempted to offer comforting optimistic answers to these big questions. The Human Predicament offers a less sanguine assessment, and defends a substanti...
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| Format : | Book |
| Language : | anglais |
| Title statement : | The human predicament : a candid guide to life's biggest questions / David Benatar |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
, C 2017 |
| Physical Description : | 1 vol. (XIX-264 p.) |
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| Related Items : | Additional physical form:
The human predicament |
| Summary : | Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths by acts of suicide? Many people are tempted to offer comforting optimistic answers to these big questions. The Human Predicament offers a less sanguine assessment, and defends a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism |
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| Notes : | Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur |
| Bibliography : | Bibliogr. p. 247-255. Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN : | 978-0-19-063381-3 |