1. Categories:
  2. Philosophy
  3. Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology
  4. Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Canto Classics: Mortal Questions
17%
off

Canto Classics: Mortal Questions

 4.05 (400 ratings by Goodreads)
By (author) 

Free delivery worldwide

Available. Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day
When will my order arrive?

Add to basket Add to wishlist

Description

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.
show more

Product details

  • Paperback | 226 pages
  • 138 x 215 x 13mm | 340g
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • English
  • Worked examples or Exercises
  • 1107604710
  • 9781107604711
  • 65,338

Other books in this series

Canto Classics: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
6%
off

Canto Classics: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Erwin Schrodinger

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$18.58  US$19.95

Save US$1.37

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
30%
off

Canto Classics: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Elinor Ostrom

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$13.85  US$19.95

Save US$6.10

Add to basket
Canto Classics: The Invention of Tradition

Canto Classics: The Invention of Tradition

Eric Hobsbawm

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$19.56  US$19.99

Save US$0.43

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
25%
off

Canto Classics: Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

E. J. Hobsbawm

26 Mar 2012

Paperback

US$14.96  US$19.95

Save US$4.99

Add to basket
The Discarded Image
22%
off

The Discarded Image

C. S. Lewis

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$15.48  US$19.95

Save US$4.47

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Mortal Questions
17%
off

Canto Classics: Mortal Questions

Thomas Nagel

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$16.45  US$19.99

Save US$3.54

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Mr Tompkins in Paperback
19%
off

Canto Classics: Mr Tompkins in Paperback

George Gamow

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$13.72  US$16.99

Save US$3.27

Add to basket
Canto Classics: English as a Global Language
34%
off

Canto Classics: English as a Global Language

David Crystal

04 Apr 2012

Paperback

US$10.41  US$15.99

Save US$5.58

Add to basket
Canto: An Experiment in Criticism
23%
off

Canto: An Experiment in Criticism

C. S. Lewis

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$15.33  US$19.95

Save US$4.62

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Morality: An Introduction to Ethics
18%
off

Canto Classics: Morality: An Introduction to Ethics

Bernard Williams

04 Apr 2012

Paperback

US$13.79  US$16.95

Save US$3.16

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Magic in the Middle Ages
36%
off

Canto Classics: Magic in the Middle Ages

Richard Kieckhefer

19 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$12.73  US$19.99

Save US$7.26

Add to basket
Canto Classics: The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
15%
off

Canto Classics: The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

C. S. Lewis

18 Nov 2013

Paperback

US$16.81  US$19.99

Save US$3.18

Add to basket
On Growth and Form
17%
off

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

01 Mar 2019

Paperback

US$16.45  US$19.95

Save US$3.50

Add to basket
Canto Classics: The Two Cultures
25%
off

Canto Classics: The Two Cultures

C. P. Snow

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$14.91  US$19.95

Save US$5.04

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Studies in Words
17%
off

Canto Classics: Studies in Words

C. S. Lewis

01 Mar 2019

Paperback

US$16.45  US$19.95

Save US$3.50

Add to basket
The New Knighthood
15%
off

The New Knighthood

Malcolm Barber

22 Feb 2019

Paperback

US$16.81  US$19.95

Save US$3.14

Add to basket
Canto Classics: 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
19%
off

Canto Classics: 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

Erwin Schrodinger

15 Dec 2014

Paperback

US$16.11  US$19.99

Save US$3.88

Add to basket
Canto Classics: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
20%
off

Canto Classics: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

01 Mar 2019

Paperback

US$15.88  US$19.99

Save US$4.11

Add to basket
Canto Classics: The Decipherment of Linear B
19%
off

Canto Classics: The Decipherment of Linear B

John Chadwick

28 Jul 2014

Paperback

US$16.11  US$19.95

Save US$3.84

Add to basket
Canto Classics: Liberty before Liberalism
18%
off

Canto Classics: Liberty before Liberalism

Quentin Skinner

18 May 2012

Paperback

US$13.86  US$16.99

Save US$3.13

Add to basket
  1. Categories:
  2. Philosophy
  3. Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology
  4. Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Back cover copy

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explore some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war and political power are shown about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value.
show more

Table of contents

Preface; Sources; 1. Death; 2. The absurd; 3. Moral luck; 4. Sexual perversion; 5. War and massacre; 6. Ruthlessness in public life; 7. The policy of preference; 8. Equality; 9. The fragmentation of value; 10. Ethics without biology; 11. Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness; 12. What is it like to be a bat?; 13. Panpsychism; 14. Subjective and objective; Index.
show more

Review quote

'These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.' R. A. Duff, The Literary Review '... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.' P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books 'Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if anyone can seize and keep the general reader's attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.' New Statesman ???These essays ... convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.??? R. A. Duff, The Literary Review ???... a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.??? P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books ???Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired ... if anyone can seize and keep the general reader??'s attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.??? New Statesman
show more

About Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel wurde am 4. Juli 1937 in Belgrad geboren, kam aber bereits 1939 in die Vereinigten Staaten und wuchs in New York auf: 1958 schloss er seine Studien an der Cornell University ab, studierte in Oxford und in Harvard und nahm später Lehrtätigkeiten u. a. in Berkeley und in Princeton auf. Gegenwärtig lehrt er an der New York University School of Law. Für sein Werk wurde er u. a. mit dem Balzan-Preis ausgezeichnet.
show more

Rating details

400 ratings
4.05 out of 5 stars
5 36% (142)
4 40% (159)
3 20% (80)
2 4% (15)
1 1% (4)
Book ratings by Goodreads
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. We're featuring millions of their reader ratings on our book pages to help you find your new favourite book. Close X