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Apr 2017
23m 57s

Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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The process of dying can be horrible for many, but is there anything bad about death itself? The obvious answer is that deprives us of something that we might otherwise have experienced. But that leads to further philosophical issues...Shelly Kagan discusses some of these with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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