Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)

By: Thomas Nagel

Narrated by: Mike Fraser

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature, and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war, and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.

In audio for the first time, this edition is masterfully narrated by Mike Fraser.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1979 Cambridge University Press.

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Deep dive into difficult questions

I've recently developed an interest in philosophy and I wanted to learn more about the questions that modern philosophers wrestle with. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. keeping up with the logical arguments was a bit challenging at times because I have no background in philosophy, but with a little help from chatgpt I found this book to be relatively digestible.