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020			_a9780511780028 (ebook)
020			_z9780521769327 (hardback)
020			_z9780521171199 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aBD444 _b.S393513 2011
082	0	0	_a128/.5 _222
100	1		_aSchumacher, Bernard N., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDeath and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy / _cBernard N. Schumacher ; translated by Michael J. Miller.
246	3		_aDeath & Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (270 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is 'nothing' to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality.
650		0	_aDeath
700	1		_aMiller, Michael J., _etranslator.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521769327
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780028
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38753 _d38753