Death: Philosophical Soundings

by Herbert Fingarette

Book Overview

No one who reads this book will ever again think of their own death in the same way.

Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation.

He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812693302
• ISBN13: 9780812693300
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.8"