Philosophy 2073F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Endangerment, Wrongful Death Claim, Hysterectomy
9 Dec 2016
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The position that as we"ve seen needs to be answered is epicurus" view, i. e. , death is not bad for the person that has died. The dominant response to this position is the one that was elaborated by nagel, Silverstein, and williams, i. e. , that the badness of death is a function of the deprivation of further possible experiences. Brennan we should not be too quick to embrace the differences between the genders in our efforts to articulate the value of death. She denies that there is any gender issue arising in the dabd contrary to the feminist scholars she refers to in the reading (pg. 245) is the only argument brennan presents (focus on 245 is you do your essay on this: the history of death and gender. While discussions of death have deep historical roots in western thought, those discussions also reveal aspects of male attitudes toward women .
