Well-being and death
"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."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2009
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxford, 2009
1 online resource (xxi, 198 pages)
9780199557967, 9780191567872, 9780191721205, 0199557969, 0191567876, 0191721204
399755310
Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1. Well-Being; 2. The Evil of Death; 3. Existence and Time; 4. Does Psychology Matter?; 5. Can Death be Defeated?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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