with Shelly Kagan · Yale University · 26 lessons · about 21 hours of video
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Shelly Kagan's calm, rigorous Yale course on the philosophy of death: what death is, whether it is bad for the one who dies, the puzzle of immortality, and how knowing we will die should change how we live. Twenty six lectures, no easy answers.
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1. Course introduction
46 min
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2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
42 min
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3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
46 min
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4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
49 min
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5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
48 min
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6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
36 min
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7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
47 min
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8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
50 min
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9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
50 min
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10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
50 min
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11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
51 min
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12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
52 min
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13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
49 min
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14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
47 min
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15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
44 min
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16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
50 min
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17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
52 min
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18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
51 min
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19. Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
49 min
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20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
51 min
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21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II
50 min
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22. Fear of death
48 min
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23. How to live given the certainty of death
47 min
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24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
45 min
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25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
50 min
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26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
48 min
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