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    Lec 16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I

    "Lec 16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I" Death (PHIL 176) Professor Kagan puts forward the claim that Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilych is quite the typical man in terms of his views on mortality. All of his life he has known that death is imminent but has never really believed it. When he suddenly falls ill and is about to die, the fact of his mortality shocks him. In trying to further access how people think about death, Professor Kagan explores the claim that "we all die alone," presents a variety of arguments against it and ends by considering whether the primary badness of death could lie in the effects on those who are left behind. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Ilyich's Reaction to Death: Typical, but Why? 01:34 - Chapter 2. Near-Death Experiences as Reminders of Mortality 08:11 - Chapter 3. "Everyone Dies Alone": Common Belief, but Necessary Truth? 13:53 - Chapter 4. Deconstructing the "Dying Alone" Statement 27:59 - Chapter 5. Weaknesses in Interpreting "Dying Alone" as Observation of Human Psychology 34:56 - Chapter 6. Introduction to Value Theory: Is Death Bad? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2007.

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    Lec 1 - Course introduction

    Lec 2 - The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism

    Lec 3 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I

    Lec 4 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II

    Lec 5 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences

    Lec 6 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I

    Lec 7 - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul

    Lec 8 - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)

    Lec 9 - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)

    Lec 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory

    Lec 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory

    Lec 12 - Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory

    Lec 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?

    Lec 14 - What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I

    Lec 15 - The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die

    Lec 17 - The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account

    Lec 18 - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I

    Lec 19 - Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I

    Lec 20 - The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I

    Lec 21 - Other bad aspects of death, Part II

    Lec 22 - Fear of death

    Lec 23 - How to live given the certainty of death

    Lec 24 - Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide

    Lec 25 - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty

    Lec 26 - Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion