TY - BOOK TI - Living with the dead: on death, the dead, and immortality AU - Wisnewski, Jeremy PY - 2023 PB - Routledge LA - eng KW - Respect for persons KW - Dead KW - Death KW - Respect de la personne KW - Morts KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Ethics & Moral Philosophy KW - Death & Dying KW - Moral and ethical aspects AB - "This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them. In the first part of the book, the author examines the scope and limits of our obligations to the dead. Our obligations to respect the wishes of the dead are more substantial than commonly acknowledged, but they can be overridden in a range of cases when they conflict with the vital interests of the living, such as in organ donation and wealth inheritance. By contrast, the author contends that the obligation to remember, at least collectively, cannot be completely overridden. In Part 2, the author argues that tradition offers the dead a form of modest immortality - the dead live on insofar as we enact those intentional states with which they are most identified. He draws on the Confucian view of ritual to argue that ritual absorption 'reincarnates' the dead in the actions of the living. Finally, the author defends a Jamesian account of a pluralistic self that is consistent with the view that we have obligations to the individual dead and that the selves of the dead are pragmatic constructions. Living with the Dead will appeal to scholars and students interested in the philosophy of death, ethics, and cross-cultural philosophy"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3545243 SN - 9781003301394 SN - 1003301398 SN - 9781000867848 SN - 1000867846 SN - 1000867854 SN - 9781000867855 DO - 10.4324/9781003301394 T2 - Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy UR - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/ebsco-3545243 H1 - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft) ER -