This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is – which requires a great deal of time spent developing definitions of the various types of identity-in-the-moment and identity-over-time – and the values involved in death. This pragmatic framework answers questions about why death is a form of loss; why we experience the emotional reactions, feelings and desires that we do; which of these reactions, feelings and desires are justified and which are not; if we can survive death and how; whether our deaths can harm us; and why and how we should prepare for death. Thanks to the pragmatic framework employed, the answers to the various questions are more likely to be accurate and acceptable than those with less rigorous scholarly underpinnings or which deal with utopian worlds.
Dennis R. Cooley
Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework
Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 311 ● ISBN 9789401772648 ● File size 3.1 MB ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4410852 ● Copy protection Social DRM