Posthumous Harm : Why the Dead are Still Vulnerable

✍ Scribed by Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

After introducing the early work of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Machiavelli, and Kant on the matter, this book critically examines the literature over the past four decades on the topic of posthumous harm.

✦ Subjects

Death - Moral and ethical aspects

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