Well-Being and Death

Well-Being and Death
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9780191567872
ISBN-13 : 0191567876
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Download or read book Well-Being and Death written by Ben Bradley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death and the good life: what makes a life go well? Is death bad for the one who dies? How is this possible if we go out of existence when we die? Is it worse to die as an infant or as a young adult? Is it bad for animals and fetuses to die? Can the dead be harmed? Is there any way to make death less bad for us? Ben Bradley defends the following views: pleasure, rather than achievement or the satisfaction of desire, is what makes life go well; death is generally bad for its victim, in virtue of depriving the victim of more of a good life; death is bad for its victim at times after death, in particular at all those times at which the victim would have been living well; death is worse the earlier it occurs, and hence it is worse to die as an infant than as an adult; death is usually bad for animals and fetuses, in just the same way it is bad for adult humans; things that happen after someone has died cannot harm that person; the only sensible way to make death less bad is to live so long that no more good life is possible.


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