Multiple Choice Quiz

Nagel defines permanent death as:

the end of our bodily existence.

the end of our bodily existence, but our conscious survival.

the end of our bodily existence, unsupplemented by conscious survival.

none of the above.

Nagel claims that if we set aside the good and bad contents of one's experiences, life is:

good.

completely neutral.

bad.

differently valuable for different people.

Nagel claims that the value of life attaches to:

organic survival.

the goods of experience.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

According to Nagel, some people find the view that death is bad simply because it deprives a person of the goods of life objectionable on the alleged grounds that:

nothing can be bad for a person unless it is experienced as positively unpleasant.

there is no subject to whom the supposed misfortunate of death can be assigned.

because our prenatal nonexistence is nothing bad, our posthumous nonexistence cannot be bad either.

all of the above.

According to Nagel, it is commonly believed that:

betrayal is bad because its discovery makes us unhappy.

the discovery of betrayal makes us unhappy because it is bad.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

Nagel claims that his case of the man with mental degeneration is an example of a harm that depends on:

pain and suffering.

the nonrelational properties of an individual.

a contrast between reality and possible alternatives.

a contrast between reality and one's present desires.

The problem of temporal asymmetry was pointed out by the philosopher:

Aristotle.

Lucretius.

Immanuel Kant.

James Rachels.

Nagel claims that if people can be frozen without reduction of their conscious lifespan, it will be inappropriate:

to unfreeze them because of the dramatic changes in ways of life likely to have taken place in the interim.

to unfreeze them because their immune system would be unable to fend of terrible diseases.

to freeze them in the first place.

to pity those who are temporarily out of circulation.

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