Death: Philosophical Soundings / Edition 1

by Herbert Fingarette

Overview

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 for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth. Fingarette goes on to discuss living a future without end and living a present without bounds. The author offers no facile consolation, but he identifies the true root of fear of death, and explains how the meaning of death can be reconceived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812693300
Publisher:	Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/05/1999
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)