Death: Philosophical Soundings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812693300)

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 future without end and living a present without bounds. The author offers no facile consolation, but he identifies the true root of fear of death, and explains how the meaning of death can be reconceived.

Author: Herbert Fingarette
ISBN-10: 0812693302
ISBN-13: 9780812693300
Publisher: Open Court
Language: English
Published: 02/05/1999
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.06w x 0.44d