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Death : Lecture 23 - How to Live Given the Certainty of Death| 46mins
Director: Open Yale Courses | Producer: Open Yale Courses
Focus Years: 2008 | Country: United States
Subject Tags: education, global, spiritual awareness, transcendent vision
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
In this lecture, Professor Kagan invites students to pose the question of how one should live life knowing that it will certainly end in death. He also explores the issue of how we should set our goals and how we should go about achieving them, bearing in mind the time constraints. Other questions raised are how this ultimately affects the quality of our work and our accomplishments, as well as how we decide what is worth doing in life. Course Description There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life? Related Resources Text Book: [Existentialism, Religion, and Death: Thirteen Essays] (Amazon)

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