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Existential Terror
- Source :
- The Journal of Ethics. 19:409-418
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Many of us feel existential terror when contemplating our future nonexistence. I examine several attempts to rationally justify existential terror. The most promising of these appeals to the effects of future nonexistence on the meaningfulness of our lives. I argue that even this justification fails, and therefore existential terror is irrational.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15728609 and 13824554
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Ethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0398754a968bcdc78ec00ef36ddff451
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-015-9204-7