Spiritual Chicken » death http://spiritualchicken.com Open Guide to Spirituality Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:30:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 26 Lectures on Death (Shelly Kagan, Yale University) http://spiritualchicken.com/2009/10/26-lectures-on-death-shelly-kagan-yale-university/ http://spiritualchicken.com/2009/10/26-lectures-on-death-shelly-kagan-yale-university/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:05:30 +0000 admin http://spiritualchicken.com/?p=741 Course Description

Academic Earth

Academic Earth

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life?

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