課本Texts
1 Plato, Phaedo6
2 John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
3 Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
課程內容
1 課程介紹 Course introduction
2 人的本質： 二元論與物理主義The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
3 靈魂存在與否的論證( 一) Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
4 柏拉圖對話錄《斐多篇》介紹，靈魂存在與否的論證(二) Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
5 靈魂存在與否的論證(三) ：自由意志與瀕死體驗Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences*
6 靈魂存在與否的論證(四) ：柏拉圖，第一部分Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
7 柏拉圖(二) ：靈魂永恆與否的論證Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
8 柏拉圖(三) ：靈魂永恆與否的論證（續） Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)7
9 柏拉圖(四) ：靈魂永恆與否的論證（續） Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
10 Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory1
11 Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
12 Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
13 Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
14 What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
15 The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
16 Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
17 The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
18 The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
19 Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
20 The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
21 Other bad aspects of death, Part II
22 Fear of death
23 How to live given the certainty of death
24 Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
25 Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
26 Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
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