Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now’: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
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<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9_12" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-49548-9_12</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now’: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Original language description
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or immortality of the soul, when thinking about death, and that he wants to take a different route focusing instead on the phenomenology of the afterlife, and the ways the diseased others live in us. And this is what the major bulk of the text focuses on. But as Patočka’s unfinished text is about to end, he leaves us with a peculiar addendum that signals that a return to the more traditional questions – about death as mine – is necessary. In this text, I seek to elucidate what the phenomenology of afterlife brings to the traditional discussion about death as mine (and about my “soul”). One of the more prominent and well-developed modern theories that discuss death as mine, is Derek Parfit’s. Thus, the effort in this text is to find out what Patočka’s phenomenology can teach us about Parfit’s theory.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death
ISBN
978-3-031-49547-2
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
167-179
Number of pages of the book
187
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place of publication
Cham
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