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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... read more

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First Sentence

If death is the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence, the question arises whether it is a bad thing to die.

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  1. Thomas Nagel (Author)

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  1. 20th century
  2. essays
  3. philosophy 
 

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