Political Theory on Death and Dying

ISBN-13: 9780367437411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 478 str.

Erin A. Dolgoy; Kimberly Hurd Hale; Bruce Peabody

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This comprehensive, encyclopedic review compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying, discussing fourty five canonical thinker’s ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death

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Introduction  1. Memory and Mortality in Homer’s Odyssey  2. Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring  3. "Every Form of Death": Thucydides on Death’s Political Presence  4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in Plato  5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the "Virtues" of Aging  6. The Buddha, Death, and Taxes  7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the Resilience of Tranquility  8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi  9. The Bhagavad Gītā and Paradox of Death  10. Life and Death as a Political Act: Cicero and the Stoics  11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on the Harmlessness of Death  12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason, and Death  13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death in St. Augustine  14. Jihād for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and Encourages, Death in Battle  15. Techniques for the Social Self: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Remembrance of Death  16. Death and Dying, Mortality and Immortality in Moses Maimonides  17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal: Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging  18. Death in Montaigne’s Essays  19. When "Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave": Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest  20. Francis Bacon on "the Dolours of Death"  21. Descartes On How We Should Relate to Death  22. "The Wages of Sin": Morality and Mortality in John Milton’s Paradise Lost  23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality  24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and Disadvantages of Death for Political Life  25. The Role of Death and Eternity in Locke’s Political Philosophy  26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law  27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Hume’s Understanding of Mortality  28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life  29. Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully  30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke  31. Kant on Death and the Purpose of Human Life 32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality  33. Hegel on Death and the Spirit  34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love  35. Immortality and Angst in Tocqueville’s America  36. "What is Odious in Death Is not Death Itself, but the Act of Dying": John Stuart Mill on the Political Philosophy of Death and Dying  37. Death and Dynamism in Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy  38. Facing Death Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhi’s Philosophy as Art of Dying  39. "An Earthly Immortality": Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and Political Death  40. Death in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time  41. Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well  42. Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Death and Aging  43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on Living and Death  44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning  45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues