Death: Philosophical Soundings
Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation.\ He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth. Fingarette goes on to discuss living a...
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Pt. 1The Meaning of Death1What Is There To Be Explored?31Death at the Mirror Image of Life5Metaphors That Deceive132Separation, Sleep153Immortality, Selflessness21Metaphors That Enlighten274The World as My Life295Life as Story396Life as a Visit to Earth477The Ceremony of Life56Living in Time658Living a Future without End679Living a Present without Bounds73Perspective on Life and Death8110"Before, I had heard - Now I see" Job 42:583Pt. 2Other Voices, Other Visions91Leo Tolstoy97Blaise Pascal107Miguel de Unamuno111Bertrand Russell117Chuang Tzu119Eugene Ionesco127Albert Camus133Bhagavad Gita139Arthur Schopenhauer143Sigmund Freud149Marcus Aurelius159Michel de Montaigne165David Hume169Index174
