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 behaviour, 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 unders
tanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what
are literally issues of life and death.
