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Death and Nonexistence

Af: Palle Yourgrau Engelsk Hardback

Death and Nonexistence

Af: Palle Yourgrau Engelsk Hardback
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The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead still there to be counted or not? And if they are still there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery of death is the mystery of nonexistence.A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death, then, must resolve the paradox of nonexistence. That is the aim of this study. At the same time, the metaphysics of death, of ceasing to exist, must serve as an account of birth, of coming to exist; the primary thesis of this book is that this demands going beyond existence and nonexistence to include what underlies both, which one can call, following tradition, "being." The dead and the unborn are therefore objects that lack existence but not being. Nonexistent objects - not corpses, or skeletons, or memories, all of which are existent objects - are what are "there" to be counted when we count the dead.
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The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead still there to be counted or not? And if they are still there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery of death is the mystery of nonexistence.A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death, then, must resolve the paradox of nonexistence. That is the aim of this study. At the same time, the metaphysics of death, of ceasing to exist, must serve as an account of birth, of coming to exist; the primary thesis of this book is that this demands going beyond existence and nonexistence to include what underlies both, which one can call, following tradition, "being." The dead and the unborn are therefore objects that lack existence but not being. Nonexistent objects - not corpses, or skeletons, or memories, all of which are existent objects - are what are "there" to be counted when we count the dead.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9780190247478
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0190247479
Kategori: Filosofi: metafysik og ontologi
Udg. Dato: 22 aug 2019
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 211mm
Højde: 147mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 22 aug 2019
Forfatter(e): Palle Yourgrau
Forfatter(e) Palle Yourgrau

Kategori Filosofi: metafysik og ontologi

ISBN-13 9780190247478

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 232

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 211mm

Højde 147mm

Udg. Dato 22 aug 2019

Oplagsdato 22 aug 2019

Forlag Oxford University Press Inc

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