Новинки Дэвида Бенатара
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The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions Дэвид Бенатар
ISBN: 0190633816 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Oxford University Press Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meaning of life. When they have tackled the big questions, they have tended, like popular writers, to offer comforting, optimistic answers. The Human Predicament invites readers to take a clear-eyed and unfettered view of the human condition. David Benatar here offers…
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The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys Дэвид Бенатар
ISBN: 0470674466, 9780470674468 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell Язык: Английский Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. The book offers an academically rigorous argument in an accessible style, including the careful use of empirical data, and includes examples and engages in a discussion of how sex discrimination against men and boys also undermines the cause for…
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence Дэвид Бенатар
ISBN: 0199549265, 9780199549269 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should---they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Although the good things in one's life make one's life go better than it otherwise would have gone, one could not have been deprived by their absence if one had not existed. Those who never exist cannot be…
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The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions Дэвид Бенатар
ISBN: 0190633840, 9780190633844 Издательство: Oxford University Press The Human Predicament' engages life's big questions. Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths by acts of suicide? Many people are tempted to offer comforting, optimistic answers to these existential questions. The text offers a less sanguine assessment and defends a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism.