Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)

Written by Thomas Nagel

Explore life's profound questions on identity, freedom, and value.

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226 pages

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Dive into a world where philosophical dilemmas meet personal insights. Confront the mysteries of life and death, identity, and freedom. How do our views on death, sexuality, and power shape our existence? Discover the intricate dance between subjective experiences and objective truths. What does it mean to truly understand consciousness, or to grapple with the absurdity of life? Each chapter challenges you to rethink the essence of being human, offering a thought-provoking journey through the complexities of morality, equality, and the nature of reality. Are you ready to question everything you know?

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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.

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