Death, Thomas Nagel

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. According to Nagel, when we set aside those things that make life better and those that make life worse, what is left over—experience itself—is

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. Nagel’s discussion of an intelligent person who suffers a brain injury that reduces him to the mental condition of a contented infant is meant to illustrate which of the following?

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. According to Nagel, the time before one’s birth and the time after one’s death

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. Nagel defines permanent death as

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. Goods and evils do not necessarily depend, for Nagel, on the subjective state of the person who experiences them.

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. Nagel would agree with the view that what we don’t know can’t hurt us.

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. According to Nagel, the badness of death is a product, not of its positive features, but of what it deprives us of.

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