Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will by John Martin Fischer (Englis
by John Martin Fischer
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Our Stories by John Martin Fischer Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This is a collection of essays by noted philosopher John Martin Fischer that seeks to show important connections between the metaphysics of death and free will. John Martin Fischer defends the commonsense views that death can be bad and immortal life can be good, and argues that in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter. Publisher Description In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. He defends the claim that something can be a bad thing--a misfortune--for an individual, even if he never experiences it as bad (and even if he does not any longer exist). Fischer also defends the commonsense asymmetry in our attitudestoward death and prenatal nonexistence: we are indifferent to the time before we are born, but we regret that we do not live longer. Further, Fischer argues (against the immortality curmudgeons, suchas Heidegger and Bernard Williams), that immortal life could be desirable, and shows how the defense of the (possible) badness of death and the (possible) goodness of immortality exhibit a similar structure; on Fischer s view, the badness of death and the goodness of life can be represented on spectra that display certain continuities. B
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Year: 2009
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780195374957
- Condition: Fine
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