Death (Yale, Shelly Kagan)

Introductory Humanities & Social Science by YaleCourses. 26 lectures, 20.8 hours. Covers: philosophy death soul personal identity.

Lectures

1. 1. Course introduction · 46 min
2. 2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism · 42 min
3. 3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I · 46 min
4. 4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II · 49 min
5. 5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences · 48 min
6. 6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I · 36 min
7. 7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul · 47 min
8. 8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.) · 50 min
9. 9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.) · 50 min
10. 10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory · 50 min
11. 11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory · 51 min
12. 12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory · 52 min
13. 13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters? · 49 min
14. 14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I · 47 min
15. 15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die · 44 min
16. 16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I · 50 min
17. 17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account · 52 min
18. 18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I · 51 min
19. 19. Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I · 49 min
20. 20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I · 51 min
21. 21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II · 50 min
22. 22. Fear of death · 48 min
23. 23. How to live given the certainty of death · 47 min
24. 24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide · 45 min
25. 25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty · 50 min
26. 26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion · 48 min

Quick explainers

• Why You Shouldn’t Fear Death · 8 min
• Death · 13 min
• What Is Life? Is Death Real? · 6 min
• It's way different than you think · 5 min
• Every Afterlife Theory Explained in 12 Minutes · 12 min
• This Will Give You Goosebumps - Alan Watts on Death · 14 min
• What happens as we die? | Kathryn Mannix | TEDxNewcastle · 15 min
• Every After Life Theory Explained in 16 Minutes · 16 min
• What Happens After You Die, Finally Explained · 18 min
• O, Death! · 21 min

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