耶鲁大学开放课程:死亡简介

讲师介绍：

Shelly Kagan是耶鲁大学中哲学牧师教授。在1976年在卫斯理工会大学拿到他的哲学学士学位，1982年于普林斯顿大学拿到哲学博士学位，他曾在匹兹堡大学和伊利诺斯州州立大学芝加哥分校执教，之后在1995年来到耶鲁大学。他是教科书《规范伦理学》的作者，此书系统的回顾的不同观点讨论有关道德的基本准则和其可能的基本原理，而《道德的极限》挑战了两个广泛流传的关于道德必需品的信仰。他当下致力于沙漠几何学的研究。

Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale. After receiving his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1976, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1982, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Yale in 1995. He is the author of the textbook Normative Ethics, which systematically reviews alternative positions concerning the basic rules of morality and their possible foundations, and The Limits of Morality, which challenges two of the most widely shared beliefs about the requirements of morality. He is currently at work on The Geometry of Desert.

课程内容:

有一件我可以肯定的事：我将会最终死亡。但是我是什么样的去完成这个无法违背的事？这套课程将会对数个我们回想我们必死性时曾问起的问题仔细推敲。深思熟虑死后可能不会是结束的可能性。我们在某些意义上能不朽吗？不朽能是可能的吗？并且对验乞的死亡是什么有个清楚的概念。一个人死了意味着什么？其中有何种事实？最后，评价对于死亡不同的看法。死亡是一个恶魔吗？怎么是的？为什么是的？自杀在道德上是合理的吗？是理性的吗？对于我将会死亡的事实如何影响着我生命的存活？

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?

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课程目录：
1.Course introduction
课程介绍
2.The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
人的本质： 二元论与物理主义
3.Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
灵魂存在与否的论证 ( 一)
4.Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
柏拉图对话录《斐多篇》介绍，灵魂存在与否的论证 (二)
5.Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences*
灵魂存在与否的论证 (三) ：自由意志与濒死体验
6.Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
灵魂存在与否的论证 (四) ：柏拉图，第一部分
7.Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
柏拉图 (二) ：灵魂永恒与否的论证
8.Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)7
柏拉图 (三) ：灵魂永恒与否的论证（续）
9.Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
柏拉图 (四) ：灵魂永恒与否的论证（续）
10.Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory1
人格同一性（一）：跨越时空的同一性 和 灵魂理论
11.Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
人格同一性（二）：肉体理论及人格理论
12.Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
人格同一性（三）：人格理论的异议
13.Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
人格同一性（四）：本质因素何在?
14.What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
本质因素何在（续）、死亡的本质（一）
15.The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
死亡的本质（续）：请相信你将死去
16.Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
独自死亡、死亡之害（一）
17.The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
死亡之害（二）：剥夺性解释
18.The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
死亡之害（三）：不朽性（一）
19.Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
不朽性（二）：生命的价值（一）
20.The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
生命的价值（二）：死亡的其它坏处（一）
21.Other bad aspects of death, Part II
死亡的其它坏处（二）
22.Fear of death
对死亡的恐惧
23.How to live given the certainty of death
如何面对死亡
24.Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
自杀(一)：自杀的合理性
25.Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
自杀(二)：犹豫不决的决定
26.Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
自杀(三)：自杀的道德评判以及全章总结

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