Select a topic explored throughout our Weeks 1-3 from our course and apply further included research to support your topic selected. Present your critical argument 3-5 pages following APA format and including references.

Select a topic explored throughout our Weeks 1-3 from our course and apply further included research to support your topic selected. Present your critical argument 3-5 pages following APA format and including references.

Readings:

Ezekiel Emanuel, “Why I Hope to Die at 75”
Naomi Rosenberg, “How to Tell a Mother Her Child is Dead”
Richard Taylor, “The Meaning of Life” (from Good and Evil)
Robert Nozick, “Philosophy and the Meaning of Life” (from Philosophical Explanations)
Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd.”
John (Fire) Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (excerpts)
David DeGrazia, “The Nature of Human Death.”
Derek Parfit, “Personal Identity” (excerpt from Reasons and Persons)
Marya Schechtman, “The Malleability of Identity.”

Readings:

Identity and the Self in Chinese Buddhism (several different readings)

Sophie-Grace Chappell, “Seeds: On Personal Identity and Resurrection”

Thomas Nagel, “Death”

John Martin Fischer, “Mortal Harm”

Kathy Behrendt, “Learning to be Dead: The Narrative Problem of Mortality”

 

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