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portada The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
18.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.32 kg.
ISBN13
9780190633813
Edition No.
1
Categories

The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

David Benatar (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions - Benatar, David

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Synopsis "The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions "

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, analyticphilosophers 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 unfetteredview of the human condition. David Benatar here offers a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism about the central questions of human existence. He argues that while our lives can have some meaning, we are ultimately the insignificant beings that we fear we might be. He maintains that the quality of life, although lessbad for some than for others, leaves much to be desired in even the best cases. Worse, death is generally not a solution; in fact, it exacerbates rather than mitigates our cosmic meaninglessness. While it can release us from suffering, it imposes another cost - annihilation. This state of affairshas nuanced implications for how we should think about many things, including immortality and suicide, and how we should think about the possibility of deeper meaning in our lives. Ultimately, this thoughtful, provocative, and deeply candid treatment of life's big questions will interest anyone whohas contemplated why we are here, and what the answer means for how we should live.

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