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Death with Shelly Kagan

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In this lecture, Professor Kagan invites students to pose th

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Lecture: "23. How to Live Given the Certainty of Death"

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Professor Kagan introduces the course and the material that

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Lecture: "1. Course Introduction"

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Professor Kagan discusses the two main positions with regard

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Lecture: "2. The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism"

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This lecture focuses on arguments that might be offered as p

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Lecture: "3. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part I"

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After Professor Kagan delivers a brief introduction to Plato

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Lecture: "4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo and Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II"

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Professor Kagan discusses in detail the argument of free wil

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Lecture: "5. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part III and Free Will and Near-Death Experience

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This lecture begins with a continued discussion of the Carte

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Lecture: "6. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part IV and Plato, Part I"

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This lecture continues the discussion of Plato's Phaedo, pre

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Lecture: "7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul"

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This lecture focuses exclusively on one argument for the imm

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Lecture: "8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)"

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Professor Kagan elaborates on the "argument from simplicity"

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Lecture: "9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)"

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Lecture 10 focuses on the question of the metaphysical key t

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Lecture: "10. Personal Identity, Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory"

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Two more views regarding the metaphysical key to personal id

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Lecture: "11. Personal Identity, Part II: The Body Theory and the Personality Theory"

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This lecture focuses on the problems directly related to the

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Lecture: "12. Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory"

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The personality theory is revised to state that the key to p

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Lecture: "13. Personal Identity, Part IV and What Matters?

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The suggestion is made that what matters in survival is the

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Lecture: "14. What Matters? (cont.) and The Nature of Death, Part I"

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This lecture explores the state of being dead. Even though t

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Lecture: "15. The Nature of Death (cont.) and Believing You Will Die"

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Professor Kagan puts forward the claim that Tolstoy's charac

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Lecture: "16. Dying Alone and The Badness of Death, Part I"

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This lecture continues to explore the issue of why death may

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Lecture: "17. The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account"

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The discussion of the badness of death continues as Professo

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Lecture: "18. The Badness of Death, Part III and Immortality, Part I"

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This lecture begins with further exploration of the question

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Lecture: "19. Immortality Part II and The Value of Life, Part I"

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Lecture 20 continues the discussion of the value of life. It

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Lecture: "20. The Value of Life, Part II and Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I"

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Further bad aspects of death are considered, including ubiqu

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Lecture: "21. Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II"

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Professor Kagan explores how thinking about death may influe

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Lecture: "22. Fear of Death"

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This is the first of a series of lectures on suicide. Two ve

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Lecture: "24. Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide"

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This lecture continues the discussion of suicide. A few more

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Lecture: "25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under Uncertainty"

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This lecture, the last of the series, begins by examining th

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Lecture: "26. Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion

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Lecture: "23. How to Live Given the Certainty of Death"

Lecture: "1. Course Introduction"

Lecture: "2. The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism"

Lecture: "3. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part I"

Lecture: "4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo and Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II"

Lecture: "5. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part III and Free Will and Near-Death Experience

Lecture: "6. Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part IV and Plato, Part I"

Lecture: "7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul"

Lecture: "8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)"

Lecture: "9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)"

Lecture: "10. Personal Identity, Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory"

Lecture: "11. Personal Identity, Part II: The Body Theory and the Personality Theory"

Lecture: "12. Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory"

Lecture: "13. Personal Identity, Part IV and What Matters?

Lecture: "14. What Matters? (cont.) and The Nature of Death, Part I"

Lecture: "15. The Nature of Death (cont.) and Believing You Will Die"

Lecture: "16. Dying Alone and The Badness of Death, Part I"

Lecture: "17. The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account"

Lecture: "18. The Badness of Death, Part III and Immortality, Part I"

Lecture: "19. Immortality Part II and The Value of Life, Part I"

Lecture: "20. The Value of Life, Part II and Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I"

Lecture: "21. Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II"

Lecture: "22. Fear of Death"

Lecture: "24. Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide"

Lecture: "25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under Uncertainty"

Lecture: "26. Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion

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