00989nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200160007610000180009224500370011025000140014726000480016130000100020952005260021965000160074565000230076165000230078420261008114514.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780521406765  223a170 NAG  a Nagel,Thomas 0aMortal Questionsc/ Thomas Nagel  aSoftcover  aLondonb: Cambridge University Pressc,1979  a213p.  aThomas 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 personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.  aPhilosophy   aNonfiction Essays   aScience Psychology